Re: A rough roadmap for internationalization fixes

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> 1. Take out the character set conversion routines from the backend and
> make them a library of their own.  This could possibly be modelled after
> iconv, but not necessarily.  Or we might conclude that we can just use
> iconv in the first place.
> 
> 2. Reimplement gettext to use 1. and allow switching of language and
> encoding at run-time.

Force all translations to be in unicode and convert to other client
encodings if needed. There is no need to support translations stored using
different encodings.

> 3. Implement Unicode collation algorithm and character classification
> routines that are aware of 1.  Use that in place of system locale
> routines.

Couldn't we use some library that already have this, like glib (or
something else). If it's not up to what we need, than fix that library
instead.

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/Dennis