--On måndag, augusti 22, 2005 10.12.11 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
wrote:
> Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> writes:
>> <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote:
>>> How is FreeBSD's Unicode support broken? I was not aware of that.
>
>> FreeBSD has no unicode collation support. Hence the need for ICU.
>
> Well, this obviously doesn't bother anyone who uses FreeBSD, so it need
> not bother us either. I do not feel a need to take on ICU in order to
> implement features that are not present anywhere else on the platform.
It bothered me enough to patch postgresql. :) And I use it with Java,
which has working unicode support, soo... Oh well, I can live with that -
I'll maintain my patch locally for the time beeing, if that's what's
required.
/Palle