Re: Russian FAQ page charset problem

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Russian FAQ page charset problem
Date: 2008-09-23 18:01:41
Message-ID: 200809231801.m8NI1fk25513@momjian.us
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Dave Page wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Nikolay Samokhvalov
> <samokhvalov(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> >> This was already discussed on the pgsql-www list recently, but there has
> >> been no resolution on what to do yet.
> >
> > What about using UTF8 for Russian text? Why not simply "iconv -f
> > koi8-r -t utf8 ..."?
>
> I thought that was what Bruce was going to do. He has other priorities
> at the moment though, so perhaps one of the the committers could
> handle it.

No, the conversion to a UTF8 header is done by the web infrastructure;
the file in CVS is in the native Russian encoding, koi8-r, and I don't
know how to change that.

However, it now seems all the FAQs are in ASCII or UTF8 so I think we
are OK going into the future.

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