Re: Server-side support of all encodings

From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
Cc: ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp, itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Server-side support of all encodings
Date: 2007-04-15 02:15:34
Message-ID: 20070415.111534.84360945.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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> Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> > Sigh. From the first day when JOHAB was supported (back to 7.3 days),
> > it should had not been in the server encodings. JOHAB's second byte
> > definitely contain 0x41 and above. *johab*.map just reflect the
> > fact. I think we should remove JOHAB from the server encodings list.
> > I'm afraid users who have JOHAB encoded databases get angry, though.
>
> I think the best way to proceed is probably to fix this in HEAD but
> not back-patch it. During a dump and reload the encoding can be
> corrected to something safe.

Ok. Shall I go ahead and remove JOHAB in HEAD?
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan

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