windows encodings

Started by Karel Zakover 21 years ago1 messages

zakkr@zf.jcu.cz

over 21 years ago

Hi,

in Czech database conference we talk about windows PostgreSQL port and
windows encodings now. The current code expect use win1250 as FE
encoding only. That's right for non-windows systems, but native windows
knows work with this encoding. The encodings separation (FE|BE) is
defined in the include/mb/pg_wchar.h file and I think we can change it
a little by "#ifdef WIN32" and define windows encodings as backend
encodings for windows port.

Pavel Stehule <stehule@kix.fsv.cvut.cz> already test win1250 as backend
encoding for windows port and it works. There is more windows encodings
like Big5 and Shift-JIS which are defined as FE only.

I haven't windows so I can't help with this work, but I think people
who work on windows port should test and fix it, because support
windows encodigs in native windows port is well-founded idea. I think
:-)

Karel

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