Re: Unicode problems on IRC

Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> The 'Unicode characters above 0x10000' issue keeps rearing its ugly head
> in the IRC channel. I propose that it be fixed, even backported...
>
> This is John Hansen's most recent patch to fix it:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2004-11/msg00259.php
>
> And from what I can tell it was committed, then reverted because it
> wasn't a "bug". It was going to go in for 8.1.
>
> We on the channel are starting to think that it is in fact a bug. There
> are are people with legitimately utf-8 encoded XML documents that they
> cannot store in PostgreSQL. Apparently in the distant past, Unicode was
> limited to 0x10000, but then was extended.
>
> Perhaps we can reopen this case...

Uh, I thought we fixed this another way, buy not using Unicode-aware
functions for upper/lower/initcap when the locale is "C" or "POSIX".
That is backpatched to 8.0.X. Does that not fix the problem reported?

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