Re: Bug #837: Unable to use LATIN9 (=ISO-8859-15) encoding

> >From PSQL, if I perform:
> \encoding LATIN9
> insert into i18ntest(id, data) values('Euro symbol', '¤');
>
> then I would expect this to insert a euro symbol into the data column
> (code point 164 is Euro in ISO-8859-15). However, when I change back to
> UTF-8, the UTF-8 data is "¤", which is the currency symbol.

I have confirmed this. It appears to have been a copy and paste mistake.
I will put the following patch into the next subrelease (7.3.1):

*** ../pg73branch/pgsql/src/backend/utils/mb/conversion_procs/utf8_and_iso8859/utf8_and_iso8859.c Tue Oct 29 18:19:19 2002
--- src/backend/utils/mb/conversion_procs/utf8_and_iso8859/utf8_and_iso8859.c Mon Dec 9 20:14:43 2002
***************
*** 98,104 ****
{PG_LATIN8, LUmapISO8859_14, ULmapISO8859_14,
sizeof(LUmapISO8859_14) / sizeof(pg_local_to_utf),
sizeof(ULmapISO8859_14) / sizeof(pg_utf_to_local)}, /* ISO-8859-14 Latin 8 */
! {PG_LATIN9, LUmapISO8859_2, ULmapISO8859_2,
sizeof(LUmapISO8859_15) / sizeof(pg_local_to_utf),
sizeof(ULmapISO8859_15) / sizeof(pg_utf_to_local)}, /* ISO-8859-15 Latin 9 */
{PG_LATIN10, LUmapISO8859_16, ULmapISO8859_16,
--- 98,104 ----
{PG_LATIN8, LUmapISO8859_14, ULmapISO8859_14,
sizeof(LUmapISO8859_14) / sizeof(pg_local_to_utf),
sizeof(ULmapISO8859_14) / sizeof(pg_utf_to_local)}, /* ISO-8859-14 Latin 8 */
! {PG_LATIN9, LUmapISO8859_15, ULmapISO8859_15,
sizeof(LUmapISO8859_15) / sizeof(pg_local_to_utf),
sizeof(ULmapISO8859_15) / sizeof(pg_utf_to_local)}, /* ISO-8859-15 Latin 9 */
{PG_LATIN10, LUmapISO8859_16, ULmapISO8859_16,

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