On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 07:29:12PM +0200, Tomi NA wrote:
> If I sound harsh, please excuse me, but I feel like I'm the only one
> who thinks these encoding problems (collation, upper/lowercase,
> multiple languages in a single database) are serious...nobody seems to
> share the sentiment. Ah well...
I agree with you, however the resistance (AFAICS) comes mostly from the
fact that we would be depending on an external library to do it. I
don't think postgres should try doing it itself, given that the unicode
character databases are quite large by themselves.
Alternativly, the postgres group could produce a customised version of
ICU that's smaller (the website has details about how). But any case,
this problem will need to be addressed at some point.
Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.