Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
>>> What is wrong with checking if the codeset is valid using iconv_open()?
>
>> That would probably work as well. We'd have to decide what we'd try to
>> convert from with iconv_open().
>
> The problem I have with that is that you are now guessing at *two*
> platform-specific encoding names not one, plus hoping there is a
> conversion between the two.
AFAIK iconv_open() supports all combinations of the valid encoding
values. Or we may be able to check it using the same encoding for
both from and to.
regards,
Hiroshi Inoue