Re: encoding names

On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 06:11:00PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Karel Zak writes:
>
> > - possible is use synonyms for encoding (an example ISO-8859-1,
> > Latin1, l1)
>
> On the choice of synonyms: Do we really want to add that many synonyms
> that are not the standard name? I think the following are not necessary:
>
> cyrillic, cp819, ibm819, isoir100x, l1-4

IMHO is not problem if PG will understand to more aliases, or is here some
relevant problem with it? :-)

> ISO 8859 is a pretty well-know term these days.
>
> KOI8 needs to be aliased as koi8r. Unicode is not a valid encoding name,

Agree.

> actually. Do you know what encoding is stands for and could you add that
> as an alias?
>
> On the code:
>
> #ifdef WIN32
> #include "win32.h"
> #else
> #include <unistd.h>
> #endif
>
> needs to be written as
>
> #ifdef WIN32
> # include "win32.h"
> #else
> # include <unistd.h>
> #endif
>
> for portability.

OK, but sounds curious (how compiler has problem with it?)

> For extra credit: A patch to configure and the documentation.

:-) needs time... but yes, I add it to next patch version.

Thanks for suggestions.

Karel

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