| From: | Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp> |
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| To: | R(dot)Hussein(at)DKFZ-Heidelberg(dot)de |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: postgres and 8859-6 encoding |
| Date: | 2001-11-15 01:30:47 |
| Message-ID: | 20011115103047M.t-ishii@sra.co.jp |
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> Please let me introduce myself. I'm Rada Hussein from Egypt and I'm
> doing my Ph.D. in Medical Informatics in Germany. We are using Postgres
> in our database applications. I'm working specifically in Arabization.
> So, I'd be grateful if you could tell me if Postgres supports the Arabic
> encoding (8859-6)or not?. If not, how can I add it? or do you recommend
> to use Unicode instead? Or it will take huge data storage?
PostgreSQL 7.2 (in beta phase now) will support ISO 8859-6.
You could get it from, for example,
ftp://ftp2.us.postgresql.org/pub/beta.
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Tatsuo Ishii
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