Re: Inconsistent Conversion Names

From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Inconsistent Conversion Names
Date: 2002-09-19 05:57:12
Message-ID: 20020919.145712.27799802.t-ishii@sra.co.jp
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> I thought you had named the conversion functions after the IANA names. I
> found the following inconsistencies, however:
>
> sjis should be shift_jis

The conversion named "SJIS" is different from IANA's "shift_jis". It
actually matches "Windows-31J" in IANA, which is too ugly to being
emploied as our conversion name, IMO.

> win1250 should be windows_1250 (similarly 866, 1251)

I agree with win1250 -> windows_1250, win1251 -> windows_1251, but do
not agree with renaming win866. There's no windows_866 in IANA. Maybe
that should be "ibm866"?

> koi8r should be koi8_r

Someone said that the conversion table is actually koi8r + koi8u,
being different from IANA's koi8_r. Not sure though.
--
Tatsuo Ishii

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