Re: Patch for pl/tcl Tcl_ExternalToUtf and Tcl_UtfToExternal

Now i'm looking on using pg_do_encoding_conversion from
/src/backend/utils/mb/mbutils.c instead of tcl conversion functions.
So we can do a), without breaking b) :))

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Reinhard Max writes:
>
> > So basically there are two possibilities:
> >
> > a) Patch pl/tcl and PgTcl to do the code conversion, but do it right
> > by using the Database's encoding instead of Tcl's system encoding.
> >
> > b) Require databases to be in UNICODE if they are to be accessed
> > from Tcl >= 8.1 so that the strings that come out of the database
> > are already UTF-8.
>
> Could you summarize how that affects the proposed patch? (The patch is
> already in, but I'm still not sure if it's not just an arbitrary
> workaround.)
>
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