Re: GB18030-2022 Support in PostgreSQL

On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

Hi,

For future reference, please don't quote my entire message below yours
-- it clutters the archives and also removes context.

> Yes, I did a diff between 2000.ucm and 2022.ucm when I worked on the patch. The diff between 2000.ucm and 2022.ucm are quite small:

That would match my expectation. In case it wasn't clear before, my
preference is to split this patch into two patches: First convert to
.ucm, then update to 2022 revision. Then the small diff will be
obvious to everyone who looks at the second commit.

> For your question:
>
> "9 characters are no longer required by the new standard, but are
> retained in this patch for compatibility"
>
> How is that done?
>
>
> The 9 mappings are not changed between 2000.ucm and 2022.ucm. For example, GB18030 code 0xFD9C is one of the 9 not-required code, but the mapping:
>
> <UF92C> \xFD\x9C |0
>
> Still appears in 2022.ucm, so that this character is retained.

Thanks for clarifying -- by saying "retained in the patch", the commit
message implied to me that the patch added something not in the
upstream file.

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John Naylor
Amazon Web Services