Re: locales and encodings on Windows

Thomas Kellerer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Aleksander Kmetec wrote on 11.11.2004 21:05:
>>
>> I have no idea, but I'm certain if someone is this is definitly not
>> going to happen for 8.0.
> 
> 
> I know this feature can't make it into 8.0; but blaming Windows for more 
> than one release cycle might not look very good. :-(
> 

I'm not really experienced with the whole locale/character set topic, but 
what I'm wondering about (and I'm sure others will do as well) is, why 
other databases (such as Firebird or Oracle) do support UTF8/Unicode on the 
Windows platform but PostgreSQL does not.

Thomas


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