Volkan YAZICI wrote: > On 12/1/05, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote: > > Where are we on this patch? Is it to be applied? > > After Tom's advice (he was doubtful about the patch), while I was > thinking about how to improve the spectrum of tests, decided to use > src/test/mb. In the tests, patch just succeded for unicode and failed > on big5, euc_cn, euc_jp, euc_kr, euc_tw, mule_internal, sjis > encodings. Fails' reason can be my wrong configuration too. (I've made > tests on a both unicode and latin-5 encoded databases.)
Do those encodings even have uppercase letters? > AFAIC, euc* encodings break latin-n and fixed latin-n encodings break > euc*. Seems like a deadlock. Furthermore, I'm not aware of the status > of ICU (will it be applied with 8.2?), thus we can go a way through > like distributing latin-n fixed PostgreSQL sources/binaries on > postgresql.org.tr. People have talked about ICU but I don't know if anyone is working on it now. I think the big problem is that while your patch works for some cases, it fails for others, and there is no good way to know/test which will work and which will not. Is that accurate? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
