Re: UTF support in WIN32 native and Lower/Upper in 7.5

From: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>
To: Marek Lewczuk <newsy(at)lewczuk(dot)com>
Cc: Lista dyskusyjna pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: UTF support in WIN32 native and Lower/Upper in 7.5
Date: 2003-12-16 11:34:57
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0312160631300.13740-100000@leary.csoft.net
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Marek Lewczuk wrote:

> I'm looking at "TODO list for PostgreSQL" and "Fix upper()/lower() to
> work for multibyte encodings" has no dash (-) -- so it won't be made in
> 7.5 ?

An item in the TODO list only gets a dash when it is complete. The fact
that it does not have a dash does not mean that there is no hope for the
7.5 release, as Peter E is working on this particular item.

> Another question is about WIN32 native release - currently, all win
> users cannot set locales, becouse Cygwin does not support it -- I hope
> that it will be solved in native release, so UTF-8 should work as well ??
>

You may be confusing locale with encoding here. UTF-8 is an encoding not
a locale.

Kris Jurka

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