Re: [HACKERS] UNICODE/UTF-8 on win32

["John Hansen" <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au>]

Right, they were meant as a starting point, but if you can point me to
how I can obtain the current locale, then I can fix them to cover the
remaining 15 special cases.

... John 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us] 
> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 2:01 AM
> To: John Hansen
> Cc: Bruce Momjian; Tatsuo Ishii; mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net; 
> pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-hackers-win32] UNICODE/UTF-8 on win32 
> 
> "John Hansen" <john(at)geeknet(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> > Look at the upper/lower I sent to the list, they should be able to 
> > replace upper/lower for the utf8 encoding.... (and works 
> independent 
> > of locale)..
> 
> I was under the impression we couldn't use these, precisely 
> because they weren't locale-aware.  ("It works for most 
> people" isn't good enough.)
> 
> In any case, don't we need a solution that covers sorting 
> (strcoll) as well as upper/lower?
> 
> 			regards, tom lane
> 
>