Re: locales and encodings on Windows

["Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>]

> >> I have no idea, but I'm certain if someone is this is 
> definitly not 
> >> going to happen for 8.0.
> > 
> > 
> > I know this feature can't make it into 8.0; but blaming Windows for 
> > more than one release cycle might not look very good. :-(
> > 
> 
> I'm not really experienced with the whole locale/character 
> set topic, but what I'm wondering about (and I'm sure others 
> will do as well) is, why other databases (such as Firebird or 
> Oracle) do support UTF8/Unicode on the Windows platform but 
> PostgreSQL does not.

PostgreSQL uses the OS functinos to do locale handling. The other
databases usually implement their own (or use a library that does it,
but they do not rely on the OS)

//Magnus