Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] UNICODE/UTF-8 on win32

"Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:
> I didn't consider the C locale. Do you know for a fact that it works
> there on win32 as well, or is that an assumption?

It should work.  The only use of strcoll() in the backend is in
varstr_cmp which uses strncmp() instead for C locale.  Lack of
working upper/lower is hardly a fatal objection, considering that
we never had that for UTF8 before 8.0 anyway.  But you do have to
have working varstr_cmp.

> It would be good to have some way of detecting if it worked or not at
> the time of creation of the database. But I have no idea on how to do
> that in a reasonable way.

At this point I'd say that any combination of UTF8 encoding with a non
C/POSIX locale probably isn't going to work on Windows.  Tatsuo, do you
know of other cases that will work?

            regards, tom lane