From: | Palle Girgensohn <girgen(at)pingpong(dot)net> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Win32 unicode vs ICU |
Date: | 2005-08-22 14:19:00 |
Message-ID: | 3C44968DF3CD8138D379192A@rambutan.pingpong.net |
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--On måndag, augusti 22, 2005 10.12.11 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
wrote:
> Palle Girgensohn <girgen(at)pingpong(dot)net> writes:
>> <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> How is FreeBSD's Unicode support broken? I was not aware of that.
>
>> FreeBSD has no unicode collation support. Hence the need for ICU.
>
> Well, this obviously doesn't bother anyone who uses FreeBSD, so it need
> not bother us either. I do not feel a need to take on ICU in order to
> implement features that are not present anywhere else on the platform.
It bothered me enough to patch postgresql. :) And I use it with Java,
which has working unicode support, soo... Oh well, I can live with that -
I'll maintain my patch locally for the time beeing, if that's what's
required.
/Palle
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