Re: Patch for pl/tcl Tcl_ExternalToUtf and Tcl_UtfToExternal

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Reinhard Max <max(at)suse(dot)de>
Cc: Vsevolod Lobko <seva(at)sevasoft(dot)kiev(dot)ua>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Patch for pl/tcl Tcl_ExternalToUtf and Tcl_UtfToExternal
Date: 2001-09-06 10:30:21
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0109061229180.823-100000@peter.localdomain
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Reinhard Max writes:

> So basically there are two possibilities:
>
> a) Patch pl/tcl and PgTcl to do the code conversion, but do it right
> by using the Database's encoding instead of Tcl's system encoding.
>
> b) Require databases to be in UNICODE if they are to be accessed
> from Tcl >= 8.1 so that the strings that come out of the database
> are already UTF-8.

Could you summarize how that affects the proposed patch? (The patch is
already in, but I'm still not sure if it's not just an arbitrary
workaround.)

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

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