Re: [GENERAL] trouble with to_char('L')

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
> > >> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >>> Where are we on this issue?
> > >> Oops I forgot it completely.
> > >> I have a little improved version and would post it tonight.
> > >
> > > Ah, very good. Thanks.
> >
> > Attached is an improved version.
>
> I spent many hours on this patch and am attaching an updated version.
> I have restructured the code and added many comments, but this is the
> main one:
>
> * Ideally, the server encoding and locale settings would
> * always match. Unfortunately, WIN32 does not support UTF-8
> * values for setlocale(), even though PostgreSQL runs fine with
> * a UTF-8 encoding on Windows:
> *
> * http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x99tb11d.aspx
> *
> * Therefore, we must set LC_CTYPE to match LC_NUMERIC and
> * LC_MONETARY, call localeconv(), and use mbstowcs() to
> * convert the locale-aware string, e.g. Euro symbol, which
> * is not in UTF-8 to the server encoding.
>
> I need someone with WIN32 experience to review and test this patch.

I don't understand why cache_locale_time() works on Windows. It sets
the LC_CTYPE but does not do any encoding coversion. Do month and
day-of-week names not work either, or do they work and the encoding
conversion for numeric/money, e.g. Euro, it not necessary?

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