Re: Multibyte support in oracle_compat.c

> The backend routines use the host OS locales, so look there.  On my
> machine I have several Russian locales, which seem to address the issue of
> character sets:
> 
> ru_RU
> ru_RU.koi8r
> ru_RU.utf8
> ru_UA
> russian
> 
> This is bogus, because the LC_CTYPE choice is cluster-wide and the
> encoding choice is database-specific (in other words: it's broken), but
> there's nothing we can do about that right now.

I thought his idea was using UTF-8 locale and Unicode (UTF-8) encoded
database.

> Btw., I just happened to think about this very issue over the last few
> days.  What I would like to attack for the next release is to implement
> character classification and conversion using the Unicode tables so we can
> cut the LC_CTYPE system locale out of the picture.  Perhaps this is what
> the poster was thinking of, too.

Interesting idea. If you are saying that you are going to remove the
dependecy on system locale, I will agree with your idea.

BTW, nls has same problem as above, no? I guess nls depeneds on locale
and it may conflict with the database-specific encoding and/or the
automatic FE/BE encoding conversion.
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Tatsuo Ishii