Re: Latest on CITEXT 2.0

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Marko Kreen" <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Latest on CITEXT 2.0
Date: 2008-07-01 15:43:07
Message-ID: 11143.1214926987@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Marko Kreen" <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> There's another thing I'm probably missing: does current code handle
> multi-wchar codepoints? Or is it guaranteed they don't happen?

AFAIK we disallow multi-wchar situations (by rejecting the UTF8
combining codes).

> (Wasn't wchar_t usually 16bit value?)

Hmm. It's unsigned int on my ancient HPUX box. I think we could have a
problem on any machines whose mbstowcs doesn't support 4-byte UTF8
codes, though ... in particular, what about Windows?

regards, tom lane

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