Re: confused with encodings

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:

> > > [I assume you enable the locale support.]
> >
> > isn't it enabled by default ?
>
> It can be off by using ---no-locale option with initdb.
>

what's the benefit of this for non-ascii world :?

> > > Dont't ask me. These are locale support problems.
> >
> > Sorry, I just wanted to understand where I get confused.
> > You're right, utf8 locale support in glibc is broke,
> > I've tested simple C-program with glibc 2.2.5 and 2.3.1 on
> > Linux system and toupper, tolower functions are broken.
> >
> > btw, did you try libutf8 library ?
> > http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-libutf8.html
>
> No. BTW, upper() will never work even glibc works fine with UTF-8. See
> the code fragment below(utils/adt/oracle_compat.c);
>
> char *ptr;
> :
> :
> while (m-- > 0)
> {
> *ptr = toupper((unsigned char) *ptr);
> ptr++;
> }
>
> Apparently this is not multibyte aware...

I see. Hope someone is aware on making postgresql unicode compatible.

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Regards,
Oleg
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