Re: UNICODE/UTF-8 on win32

Hello,

Tom Lane schrieb am 31.12.2004 20:21:
> "Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:
>
>>We know it's broken and won't be fixed for 8.0.
>
>
>>If we just #ifndef WIN32 the definitions in utils/mb/encnames.c it won't
>>be possible to select that encoding, right? Will that have any other
>>unwanted effects (such as breaking client encodings)? If not, I suggest
>>this is done.
>
>
> I believe the subscripts in those arrays have to match the encoding
> enum type, so you can't just ifdef out individual entries.
>
>
>>(Or perhaps something can be done in pg_valid_server_encoding?)
>
>
> Making the valid_server_encoding function reject it might work.
> Tatsuo-san would know for sure.
>
> Should we also reject it as a client encoding, or does that work OK?

what ever you will decide to do, please don't reject UTF-8 as a valid
client encoding. This would break existing applications in our company,
and I'm sure, not only there.


With best regards,

Roland.