Re: [PATCHES] Patch to make Turks happy.

OK, Peter, that helps. Thanks. I will apply it.

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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > I am not going to apply this patch because I think it will mess up the
> > handling of other locales.
>
> This patch looks OK to me. Normally, character set names should use
> identifier case-folding rules anyway, so seems to be a step in the right
> direction. Much better than saying that users of certain locales can't
> properly use PostgreSQL.
>
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Nicolai Tufar wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Yet another problem with Turkish encoding. clean_encoding_name()
> > > in src/backend/utils/mb/encnames.c uses tolower() to convert locale
> > > names to lower-case. This causes errors if locale name contains
> > > capital "I" and current olcale is Turkish. Some examples:
> > >
> > > aaa=# \l
> > > List of databases
> > > Name | Owner | Encoding
> > > -----------+-------+----------
> > > aaa | pgsql | LATIN5
> > > bbb | pgsql | LATIN5
> > > template0 | pgsql | LATIN5
> > > template1 | pgsql | LATIN5
> > > (4 rows)
> > > aaa=# CREATE DATABASE ccc ENCODING='LATIN5';
> > > ERROR: LATIN5 is not a valid encoding name
> > > aaa=# \encoding
> > > SQL_ASCII
> > > aaa=# \encoding SQL_ASCII
> > > SQL_ASCII: invalid encoding name or conversion procedure not found
> > > aaa=# \encoding LATIN5
> > > LATIN5: invalid encoding name or conversion procedure not found
> > >
> > >
> > > Patch, is a simple change to use ASCII-only lower-case conversion
> > > instead of locale-dependent tolower()
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Nic.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > *** ./src/backend/utils/mb/encnames.c.orig Mon Dec 2 15:58:49 2002
> > > --- ./src/backend/utils/mb/encnames.c Mon Dec 2 18:13:23 2002
> > > ***************
> > > *** 407,413 ****
> > > for (p = key, np = newkey; *p != '\0'; p++)
> > > {
> > > if (isalnum((unsigned char) *p))
> > > ! *np++ = tolower((unsigned char) *p);
> > > }
> > > *np = '\0';
> > > return newkey;
> > > --- 407,416 ----
> > > for (p = key, np = newkey; *p != '\0'; p++)
> > > {
> > > if (isalnum((unsigned char) *p))
> > > ! if (*p >= 'A' && *p <= 'Z')
> > > ! *np++ = *p + 'a' - 'A';
> > > ! else
> > > ! *np++ = *p;
> > > }
> > > *np = '\0';
> > > return newkey;
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> > > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
> > >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
>
>
>
>

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