Re: encoding names

On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 10:37:18AM -0700, Barry Lind wrote:
> This patch will break the JDBC driver. The jdbc driver relies on the
> value returned by getdatabaseencoding() to determine the server encoding
> so that it can convert to unicode. This patch changes the return values
> for getdatabaseencoding() such that the driver will no longer work. For
> example "LATIN1" which used to be returned will now come back as
> "iso88591". This change in behaviour impacts the JDBC driver and any
> other application that is depending on the output of the
> getdatabaseencoding() function.

Hmm.. but I agree with Peter that correct solution is rewrite it to
standard names.

> I would recommend that getdatabaseencoding() return the old names for
> backword compatibility and then deprecate this function to be removed in
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
We can finish as great Microsoft systems... nice face but terrible old stuff
in kernel.

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