| From: | Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp> |
|---|---|
| To: | tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us |
| Cc: | tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)fujitsu(dot)com, hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi, ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Deprecate custom encoding conversions |
| Date: | 2020-12-03 02:27:28 |
| Message-ID: | 20201203.112728.2138191168638558373.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp |
| Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
| Thread: | |
| Lists: | pgsql-hackers |
> I recall a discussion in which someone explained that things are messy for
> Japanese because there's not really just one version of SJIS; there are
> several, because various groups extended the original standard in not-
> quite-compatible ways. In turn this means that there's not really one
> well-defined conversion to/from Unicode
That's true.
> --- which is the reason why
> allowing custom conversions seemed like a good idea. I don't know
> whether anyone over there is actually using custom conversions, but
> I'd be hesitant to just nuke the feature altogether.
By Googling I found an instance which is using CREATE CONVERSION
(Japanese article).
http://grep.blog49.fc2.com/blog-entry-87.html
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php
Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Chapman Flack | 2020-12-03 02:36:14 | Re: Commitfest 2020-11 is closed |
| Previous Message | Hou, Zhijie | 2020-12-03 02:21:51 | RE: A new function to wait for the backend exit after termination |