UTF support in WIN32 native and Lower/Upper in 7.5 release

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#1Marek Lewczuk
newsy@lewczuk.com

I'm looking at "TODO list for PostgreSQL" and "Fix upper()/lower() to
work for multibyte encodings" has no dash (-) -- so it won't be made in
7.5 ?

Another question is about WIN32 native release - currently, all win
users cannot set locales, becouse Cygwin does not support it -- I hope
that it will be solved in native release, so UTF-8 should work as well ??

Just wanted to know how to plan my further work. Thanks.

ML

#2Kris Jurka
books@ejurka.com
In reply to: Marek Lewczuk (#1)
Re: UTF support in WIN32 native and Lower/Upper in 7.5

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Marek Lewczuk wrote:

I'm looking at "TODO list for PostgreSQL" and "Fix upper()/lower() to
work for multibyte encodings" has no dash (-) -- so it won't be made in
7.5 ?

An item in the TODO list only gets a dash when it is complete. The fact
that it does not have a dash does not mean that there is no hope for the
7.5 release, as Peter E is working on this particular item.

Another question is about WIN32 native release - currently, all win
users cannot set locales, becouse Cygwin does not support it -- I hope
that it will be solved in native release, so UTF-8 should work as well ??

You may be confusing locale with encoding here. UTF-8 is an encoding not
a locale.

Kris Jurka

#3Marek Lewczuk
newsy@lewczuk.com
In reply to: Kris Jurka (#2)
Re: UTF support in WIN32 native and Lower/Upper in 7.5

Kris Jurka wrote:

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Marek Lewczuk wrote:

Another question is about WIN32 native release - currently, all win
users cannot set locales, becouse Cygwin does not support it -- I hope
that it will be solved in native release, so UTF-8 should work as well ??

You may be confusing locale with encoding here. UTF-8 is an encoding not
a locale.

Well, yes. But locales are needed if we want to sort query results with
local signs ?

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Kris Jurka

#4Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Marek Lewczuk (#1)
Re: UTF support in WIN32 native and Lower/Upper in 7.5 release

Marek Lewczuk wrote:

I'm looking at "TODO list for PostgreSQL" and "Fix upper()/lower() to
work for multibyte encodings" has no dash (-) -- so it won't be made in
7.5 ?

Another question is about WIN32 native release - currently, all win
users cannot set locales, becouse Cygwin does not support it -- I hope
that it will be solved in native release, so UTF-8 should work as well ??

Just wanted to know how to plan my further work. Thanks.

Not sure. CC'ing the win32 list.

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#5Andrew Dunstan
andrew@dunslane.net
In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#4)
Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] UTF support in WIN32 native and Lower/Upper in 7.5 release

Bruce Momjian said:

Marek Lewczuk wrote:

I'm looking at "TODO list for PostgreSQL" and "Fix upper()/lower() to
work for multibyte encodings" has no dash (-) -- so it won't be made
in 7.5 ?

Another question is about WIN32 native release - currently, all win
users cannot set locales, becouse Cygwin does not support it -- I hope
that it will be solved in native release, so UTF-8 should work as
well ??

Just wanted to know how to plan my further work. Thanks.

Not sure. CC'ing the win32 list.

No dash against an item doesn't mean it won't be done for 7.5, just that
nobody apparently has yet. If you want to do it then go for it ;-)

I believe he native W32 libraries support locales except for one setting -
I forget which (possibly LC_MESSAGES?).

cheers

andrew