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Re: locales and encodings on Windows
- From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
- To: "Thomas Kellerer" <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>, <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>
- Subject: Re: locales and encodings on Windows
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:14:34 +0100
- Message-id: <6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE476431(at)algol(dot)sollentuna(dot)se>
> >> 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
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