Re: A rough roadmap for internationalization fixes

From: Kurt Roeckx <Q(at)ping(dot)be>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org, peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: A rough roadmap for internationalization fixes
Date: 2003-11-26 19:10:31
Message-ID: 20031126191031.GA16394@ping.be
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On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 04:19:05PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> UCS-2 is impractical without some *extremely* wide-ranging changes in
> the backend. To take just the most obvious point, doesn't it require
> allowing embedded zero bytes in text strings?

If you're going to use unicode in the rest of the backend, you'll
have to be able to deal with them anyway. You can't use normal C
string functions.

Kurt

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