Re: locales and encodings on Windows
Tom Lane <[email protected]>
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Thomas Kellerer <[email protected]> writes: > Magnus Hagander wrote on 22.12.2004 13:14: >>> [about PG not supporting Unicode on Windows] >> >> PostgreSQL uses the OS functinos to do locale handling. The other >> databases usually implement their own (or use a library that does it, >> but they do not rely on the OS) > Being a developer myself I can understand this reason, but in the PG > context I'm a User I not having Unicode support is my eyes a very big > deficiency which gives the whole Win32 a semi-professional "touch". > Unicode is something very important and I do hope this will be solved in on > of the next releases. [ shrug... ] It can't be too important to Windows users, since their platform doesn't support it. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org