Peter Eisentraut kirjutas T, 25.11.2003 kell 21:13: > Greg Stark writes: > > > This sounds like you want to completely reimplement all of the locale handling > > provided by the OS? That seems like a dead-end approach to me. There's no way > > your handling will ever be as complete or as well optimized as some OS's. > > Actually, I'm pretty sure it will be more complete. About the > optimization, we'll have to see. > > > Better to find ways to use the OS gettext and locale handling on platforms > > that provide good interfaces. > > There are no such platforms to my knowledge.
Unless you consider ICU (http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/) as a "platform" ;) We will hardly ever be more complete than it. > There are no such libraries. I keep hearing ICU, but that is much too > bloated. At least it is kind of "standard" and also something what will be maintained for foreseeable future, it also has a compatible license and is available on all platforms of interest to postgresql. And I am not sure that this "bloat" will affect us too much unless we want to start maintaining a parallel copy - glibc is much more bloated than ICU . But if you insist on rolling your own library, you can always use ICU to write regression test to compare yours with ... ------------- Hannu ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
