Re: A rough roadmap for internationalization fixes

From: Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: A rough roadmap for internationalization fixes
Date: 2003-11-25 16:12:34
Message-ID: 87r7zwl959.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org
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Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>
> > I wasn't aware that glib had this. I'll look.
>
> Of course the trouble with relying on glibc is that we'd have no solution
> for platforms that don't use glibc.

glib != glibc. glib is the low-level library used by GTK and GNOME
for basic data structures, character handling etc. It's LGPL AFAIK,
which would seem to rule out diredct use from a licensing perspective.

-Doug

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