On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 09:59:44PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 12:58:07PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > What would be really cool is if we could somehow reuse the conversion > > > modules provided by the C library and/or the iconv library. For example, > > ^^^^^^^ > > > > Very good point. Why use own conversion routines/tables if there is common > > library for this? > > I'm not still sure about the details of conversion map used by > iconv. Japanese users have enough trouble with the conversin between > Unicode and othe charsets. This is because there are many variation of > conversion maps provided by vendors. For example, the conversion map > used for Unicode and SJIS in PostgreSQL has been carefully designed to > minimize problems described above. Another issue is the availabilty of > iconv among platforms. If we are sure that a particlular iconv > conversion routine is available on all platforms and the conversion > result is good eough, our conversion routine could be replaced by new > one using iconv.
This is not problem if we will have some common API. You can use current conversion tables (maps) and for example I can use iconv on my i386/Linux. I don't want to replace current maps if somebody needs it. I would like to API. I see iconv is included into glibc now. > > I unsure with only one argument for encoding function. What if I want > > to use one generic function for all encodings (for example as API to > > iconv)? > > Use a simple wrap function. How knows this function to/from encoding? Karel -- Karel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://home.zf.jcu.cz/~zakkr/ C, PostgreSQL, PHP, WWW, http://docs.linux.cz, http://mape.jcu.cz ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
