Re: Patch for collation using ICU

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Palle Girgensohn [mailto:girgen@pingpong.net]
> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 11:30 PM
> To: John Hansen; Bruce Momjian
> Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Patch for collation using ICU
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> --On lördag, maj 07, 2005 23.25.15 +1000 John Hansen
> <john@geeknet.com.au>
> wrote:
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> > Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> >> I'm aware of that. It might help for unicode, but there
> are a bunch
> >> of other encodings. IANA has decided that utf-8 has *no* aliases,
> >> hence only
> >> utf-8 (with dash, but case insensitve) is accepted. Perhaps ICU is
> >> fogiving, I don't remember/know, but I think we need the mappings,
> >> unfortunately.
> >>
> >
> > Here is the list of encoding names and aliases the ICU accepts as of
> > 3.2:
> > (it's a bit long...)
> >
> > UTF-8 ibm-1208 ibm-1209 ibm-5304 ibm-5305 windows-65001 cp1208
>
> No UTF8 in there. I think that's good, charset aliases are a hassle.

Yup! :)

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> /Palle
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