Re: SQL99 CONVERT() function

From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
Cc: zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SQL99 CONVERT() function
Date: 2002-08-14 05:31:12
Message-ID: 20020814.143112.112622202.t-ishii@sra.co.jp
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> > I suggest using the official IANA names and replace all the non-identifier
> > characters by underscores and all upper-case letters with lower-case.
> > So it would be iso_8859_1_to_utf_8. That way it's almost as pretty but a
> > lot more predictable.
>
> Sounds reasonable. I'll look into this. However I have to examin each
> encodings carefully. Because:
>
> (1) some encodings are not listed IANA (e.g. TCVN, WIN874...)
>
> (2) some offcial IANA names seem not appropriate
> (e.g. Extended_UNIX_Code_Packed_Format_for_Japanese)
> :
> :

Done. See current doc (user's guide "6.4. String Functions and
Operators" Table 6-7 "Available conversion names") how I changed the
conversion names.
--
Tatsuo Ishii

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