From: | Peter Mount <peter(at)taer(dot)maidstone(dot)gov(dot)uk> |
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To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] Postgres-6.3.2 locale patch (fwd) |
Date: | 1998-06-04 07:47:31 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.3.95.980604084711.22446B-100000@taer.maidstone.gov.uk |
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On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
> Hi. I'm looking for non-English-using Postgres hackers to participate in
> implementing NCHAR() and alternate character sets in Postgres. I think
> I've worked out how to do the implementation (not the details, just a
> strategy) so that multiple character sets will be allowed in a single
> database, additional character sets can be loaded at run-time, and so
> that everything will behave transparently.
Ok, I'm English, but I'll keep a close eye on this topic as the JDBC
driver has two methods that handle Unicode strings.
Currently, they simply call the Ascii/Binary methods. But they could (when
NCHAR/NVARCHAR/CHARACTER SET is the columns type) handle the translation
between the character set and Unicode.
> I would propose to do this for v6.4 as user-defined packages (with
> compile-time parser support) on top of the existing USE_LOCALE and MB
> patches so that the existing compile-time options are not changed or
> damaged.
In a same vein, for getting JDBC up to speed with this, we may need to
have a function on the backend that will handle the translation between
the encoding and Unicode. This would allow the JDBC driver to
automatically handle a new character set without having to write a class
for each package.
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Peter Mount, peter(at)maidstone(dot)gov(dot)uk
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