Re: Chinese GB18030 support is implemented!

> Hello,
>
> As postgresql is widely used in the world,many Chinese users are looking
> forward to use such a high performanced database management
> system.However since the Chinese new codepage standard GB18030 is not
> completely supported,postgresql is limitted to be used in China.
>
> Now I have managed to implement the GB18030 support upon the latest
> version,so the following functions are added after the patches are added.
>
> -Chinese GB18030 encoding is available on front-end side,while on
> backend side,EUC_CN or MIC is used.
> -Encoding convertion between MIC and GB18030 is implement.
> -GB18030 locale support is available on front-end side.
> -GB18030 locale test is added.
>
> Any help for testing with these patches and sugguestions for GB18030
> support are greatly appreciated.

In your patches I found conversion functions between UTF-8 and GB18030
using the same mapping for EUC_CN. I don't know the details of GB18030
but I could guess that the mapping for EUC_CN might not work with
GB18030. If so, what do you intend to add these function?
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Tatsuo Ishii