Re: locales and encodings on Windows

Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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