Marko Kreen wrote:
> On 7/1/08, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > "Marko Kreen" <markokr@gmail.com> writes:
> > > On 6/26/08, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >
> > >> BTW, I don't think you can use that same-length optimization for
> > >> citext. There's no reason to think that upper/lowercase pairs will
> > >> have the same length all the time in multibyte encodings.
> >
> > > What about this code in current str_tolower():
> >
> > > /* Output workspace cannot have more codes than input bytes */
> > > workspace = (wchar_t *) palloc((nbytes + 1) * sizeof(wchar_t));
> >
> >
> > That's working with wchars, not bytes.
>
> Ah, I missed the point of char2wchar() line.
>
> I'm rather unfamiliar with various MB API-s, sorry.
>
> There's another thing I'm probably missing: does current code handle
> multi-wchar codepoints? Or is it guaranteed they don't happen?
> (Wasn't wchar_t usually 16bit value?)
If you want a simple example of wide character use look at
oracle_compat.c::upper() which calls str_toupper() in CVS HEAD.
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