| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, - - <crossroads0000(at)googlemail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Unicode support |
| Date: | 2009-04-15 16:21:18 |
| Message-ID: | 20090415162118.GB25373@svana.org |
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:32:57AM -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> I've no idea what it would require, but the mapping table must be
> pretty substantial. Still, I'd love to have this functionality in the
> database.
The Unicode tables in ICU outweigh the size of the code by a factor 5
or so. Once Postgres decides it want to do unicode properly and thus
imports the tables in some way, it could get the code to work with it
for 20% extra.
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while
> boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.
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