Re: BUG #2685: Wrong charset of server messages on client

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Sergiy Vyshnevetskiy wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Sergiy Vyshnevetskiy wrote:
>
>>  On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>> >   "Sergiy Vyshnevetskiy" <serg@vostok.net> writes:
>> > >   Convert server messages to database charset.
>> >
>> >   This has been discussed before:
>> >   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-08/msg00245.php
>> >
>> >   The magic pg_enc2iananame_tbl[] you reference in your patch does not
>> >   exist,
>> >   and if it did exist it wouldn't work on all platforms, since encoding
>> >   names aren't sufficiently well standardized :-(
>>
>>  It's not magic, it's from ICU patch. Want me to send you a copy? :)
>
> Sorry. I thought it was more well-known. Just looked into gentoo portage -
> they don't know about it eigther.
>
> The patch is here:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~girgen/postgresql-icu/pg-814-icu-xx-2006-09-25.diff.gz
>
> This is the current list of encodings, according to iana:
>
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets

ICU homepage is

http://icu.sourceforge.net/