On 04/30/2015 06:13 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:33:43PM +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>> I can write a "uint32 UTF8toGB18030(uint32)" function, but I don't know
>>> where to put it in the code.
>>
>> The mapping functions are in src/backend/utils/mb/conversion_procs/utf8_and_gb18030/utf8_and_gb18030.c.
>> They currently just consult the mapping table. You'd need to modify
>> them to also check if the codepoint is in one of those linear
>> ranges, and do the mapping for those programmatically.
>>
>>> Else I could also extend the map file. It would double in size if it only
>>> needs to include valid code points.
>>
>> The current mapping table contains about 63000 mappings, but there
>> are over a million valid code points that need to be mapped. If you
>> just add every one-to-one mapping to the table, it's going to blow
>> up in size to over 8 MB. I don't think we want that, handling the
>> ranges with linear mappings programmatically makes a lot more sense.
>
> Should this be a TODO entry?
Yeah, I guess it should.
- Heikki