Re: UNICODE/UTF-8 on win32

Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
> >TODO updated:
> >
> >        o Disallow encodings like UTF8 which PostgreSQL supports
> >          but the operating system does not (already disallowed by
> >          pginstaller)
> >
> >          To fix UTF8, the data needs to be converted to UTF16 and then
> >          the Win32 strcoll() can be used.
>
> Not quite. We'd use the wcscoll() function. strcoll() does not work with
> what windows calls "wide characters", which is UTF16, only with
> "multibyte characters". The whole point of the fix is to be able to use
> wcscoll() instead.

OK, updated.

> Also, not AFAIK, not only strcoll(), but also whatever is used to
> generate UPPER() and LOWER() needs to be fixed. Possibly more?

OK.  I think you mean towupper().

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