Re: UNICODE characters above 0x10000

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oliver Elphick [mailto:olly@lfix.co.uk]
> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 7:43 AM
> To: Tom Lane
> Cc: John Hansen; Hackers; Patches
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] UNICODE characters above 0x10000
>
> On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 07:10, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
> > > glibc provides various routines (mb...) for handling Unicode.  How

> > > many of our supported platforms don't have these?
> >
> > Every one that doesn't use glibc.  Don't bother proposing a
glibc-only
> > solution (and that's from someone who works for a glibc-only
company;
> > you don't even want to think about the push-back you'll get from
other
> > quarters).
>
> No. that's not what I was proposing.  My suggestion was to
> use these routines if they are sufficiently widely
> implemented, and our own routines where standard ones are not
> available.
>
> The man page for mblen says
> "CONFORMING TO
>        ISO/ANSI C, UNIX98"
>
> Is glibc really the only C library to conform?
>
> If using the mb... routines isn't feasible, IBM's ICU library
> (http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/) is available under the X
> licence, which is compatible with BSD as far as I can see.
> Besides character conversion, ICU can also do collation in
> various locales and encodings.
> My point is, we shouldn't be writing a new set of routines to
> do half a job if there are already libraries available to do
> all of it.
>

This sounds like a brilliant move, if anything.

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Kind Regards,

John Hansen