Re: locales and encodings on Windows

From: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: locales and encodings on Windows
Date: 2004-12-22 12:12:16
Message-ID: cqbob1$6vb$1@sea.gmane.org
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Aleksander Kmetec wrote on 11.11.2004 21:05:
>>
>> I have no idea, but I'm certain if someone is this is definitly not
>> going to happen for 8.0.
>
>
> I know this feature can't make it into 8.0; but blaming Windows for more
> than one release cycle might not look very good. :-(
>

I'm not really experienced with the whole locale/character set topic, but
what I'm wondering about (and I'm sure others will do as well) is, why
other databases (such as Firebird or Oracle) do support UTF8/Unicode on the
Windows platform but PostgreSQL does not.

Thomas

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