Re: CommitFest 2009-09, two weeks on

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 04:11, Itagaki Takahiro
<itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
>
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>
>> I can certainly review the win32 encoding patch, but I was rather
>> hoping for some comments from others on if we're interested in a win32
>> only solution, or if we want something more generic. Should we just go
>> with the win32-only one for now?
>
> Yes, because Windows is only platform that supports UTF-16 encoding natively.
> I believe my patch is the best solution for Windows even if we have another
> approach for other platforms.

Actually, I think a better argument is that since Windows will *never*
accept UTF8 logging, and that's what most databases will be in, much
of this patch will be required anyway. So I should probably review and
get this part in while we think about other solutions *as well* for
other platforms.

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