Peter Eisentraut kirjutas E, 20.10.2003 kell 21:02: > Tom Lane writes: > > > I noticed by chance that glibc has a "reentrant locale" API that seems > > to allow for efficient access to multiple locales concurrently. Perhaps > > it would be a reasonable solution to support multiple locales only on > > machines that have this library. If we have to write our own locale > > support it's likely to be a long time coming :-( > > Naturally, I cannot promise anything, but this is at the top of my list > for the next release. I already have sorted out the specifications and > algorithms and collected locale data for most corners of the world, so > it's just the coding left.
Have you checked ICU ( http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/ ) ? It seems to have all the needed data at least. > Unfortunately, a real, sustainable fix of this > situations requires us to start at the very bottom, namely the character > set conversion interface, then the gettext interface, then the new locale > library, then integrating the per-column granularity into the > parser/planer/executor. So you may be looking at a two-release process. --------------- Hannu ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
