Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Explicitly bind gettext() to the UTF8 locale when in use.

Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
> Hi Magnus and all,
> 
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> Log Message:
>> -----------
>> Explicitly bind gettext() to the  UTF8 locale when in use.
>> This is required on Windows due to the special locale
>> handling for UTF8 that doesn't change the full environment.
> 
> Thanks to this change UTF-8 case was solved but Japanese users
> are still unhappy with Windows databases with EUC_JP encoding.
> Shift_JIS which is a Japanese encoding under Windows doesn't
> match any server encoding and causes a crash with the use of
> gettext. So Saito-san removed ja message catalog just before
> the 8.3 release.
> 
> Attached is a simple patch to avoid the crash and enable the
> use of Japanese message catalog.
> Please apply the patch if there's no problem.

Hi!

It will clearly also need an update to the comment, but I can take care
of that.

I assume you have tested this? The comment says that it works because we
are handling UTF8 on a special way on Windows, but AFAIK we *don't*
handle EUC_JP in a special way there?

If your database is in EUC_JP, I don't see why gettext() isn't picking
it up properly in the first place..

And why do we need that on Windows only, and not on other platforms?

//Magnus