Re: locales and encodings on Windows

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Magnus Hagander wrote on 22.12.2004 13:14:
>>> [about PG not supporting Unicode on Windows]
>> 
>> 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)

> Being a developer myself I can understand this reason, but in the PG 
> context I'm a User I not having Unicode support is my eyes a very big 
> deficiency which gives the whole Win32 a semi-professional "touch".

> Unicode is something very important and I do hope this will be solved in on 
> of the next releases.

[ shrug... ]  It can't be too important to Windows users, since their
platform doesn't support it.

			regards, tom lane