Re: [PATCHES] Cyrillic to UNICODE conversion

Thanks for the fixes. I have committed your patches and they should
appear in 7.1.1.

BTW, I have not added cp1251.txt  cp866.txt  koi8-r.txt, since they
come from Unicode.org and are not permitted to re-distribute.
--
Tatsuo Ishii

From: Victor Wagner <vitus@ice.ru>
Subject: [PATCHES] Cyrillic to UNICODE conversion
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 20:51:25 +0400 (MSD)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104262041500.9539-101000@party.ice.ru>

>
> Despite of advertized support of Unicode to other charset conversion,
> PostgreSQL-7.1 reports that Conversion of UNICODE to KOI8 is not
> supported. Same for WIN, ALT and other charsets.
>
> As I found out, it was simply forgotten to add these charsets to list
> of 8-bit charsets which should be converted. May be becouse their maps
> are stored in another directory on ftp.unicode.org (see VENDORS/MicroSoft
> for cp1251 and cp866 maps, and somewhere else for KOI8-R.TXT. At least all
> those maps are included in the catdoc distribution)
>
> Attached patch fixes this problem. It adds script UCS_to_cyrillic.pl
> into src/backend/utils/mb/Unicode directory. Mapping of the PostgreSQL
> charset names to filenames (as they appear in catdoc distribution, i.e.
> lowercased) is hardcoded into script. It is almost exact copy of
> UCS_to_iso script, with only file and constant names changed.
>
> Generated maps are included in the patch, as they are included in the
> source tarball, and maps are omitted, becouse they are removed by
> make distclean
>
> file src/backend/mb/conv.c is modified
> to include new maps and provide appropriate conversion functions
>
>
>
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