Re: Unicode mapping scripts cleanup

From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com
Cc: peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net, stark(at)mit(dot)edu, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Unicode mapping scripts cleanup
Date: 2015-09-16 22:57:15
Message-ID: 20150917.075715.1524608503105439948.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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> What if we discovered that one of our mappings was wrong? Suppose
> that there is some encoding where the Unicode mapping for "a" is
> inadvertently mapped to the letter "b" in some other character set,
> and "b" is mapped to "a". I imagine that anyone using that encoding
> would want this fixed; it's a bug.

I am not against fixing the mapping if it *clearly* includes a
bug. However we must be very careful before deciding if it's really a
bug or not.

Best regards,
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp

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