Re: [HACKERS] UNICODE/UTF-8 on win32

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "John Hansen" <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Tatsuo Ishii" <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net, pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] UNICODE/UTF-8 on win32
Date: 2005-04-24 16:01:01
Message-ID: 6992.1114358461@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"John Hansen" <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> Look at the upper/lower I sent to the list, they should be able to
> replace upper/lower for the utf8 encoding.... (and works independent of
> locale)..

I was under the impression we couldn't use these, precisely because they
weren't locale-aware. ("It works for most people" isn't good enough.)

In any case, don't we need a solution that covers sorting (strcoll) as
well as upper/lower?

regards, tom lane

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