Re: Win32 unicode vs ICU

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Palle Girgensohn <girgen(at)pingpong(dot)net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Win32 unicode vs ICU
Date: 2005-08-22 14:12:11
Message-ID: 15587.1124719931@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Palle Girgensohn <girgen(at)pingpong(dot)net> writes:
> <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> How is FreeBSD's Unicode support broken? I was not aware of that.

> FreeBSD has no unicode collation support. Hence the need for ICU.

Well, this obviously doesn't bother anyone who uses FreeBSD, so it need
not bother us either. I do not feel a need to take on ICU in order to
implement features that are not present anywhere else on the platform.

regards, tom lane

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