Re: Multibyte FAQ item

On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:

>
> Do we need an multibyte/locale/unicode FAQ item?  Questions about these
> seem to be asked a lot, but the documentation for these items is quite
> good.
>

Well IMHO, this one is very self explaning
<http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?multibyte.html>

but these aren't...
(from pgsql 7.1.3, I can't grab stuff from the cvs at the moment for some
reason)

jaa @ eowyn 114 $ ./configure --help
--8<--
  --enable-multibyte      enable multibyte character support
--8<--

and
jaa @ eowyn 114 $ less INSTALL
--8<--
     --enable-multibyte

          Allows the use of multibyte character encodings. This is
          primarily for languages like Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. Read
          the Administrator's Guide for details.
--8<--

If you are 8-bit speaking people (ie. iso8859-1), you will just think ok,
thats not concern me. And at the that very same moment you will lose.

So, it will be nice if there is more verbose help text in the INSTALL
file, or even own FOR_8BIT_CHARS_READ_THIS file.

I think that there is enought information after you have realize that if
you would like use 8-bit chars, you have to be multibyte turned on.

If the situation isn't that at the moment, please forgot me.


BR, Jani


P.S. There was a thread about this topic in the jdbc-mailing list starting
from here:

<http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jdbc/2001-05/msg00018.php>

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Jani Averbach