Re: [HACKERS] UNICODE

2001-10-28 Thread Patrice Hédé
g > >correctly. > Everything is configured correctly server-side (PostgreSQL, Psql). > > Thank you very much for your support Marko, > Best regards, > Jean-Michel It's possible to work with psql and UTF-8, I'm using it :) But support for utf-8 is not complete yet, and it's not seamless. Also, support in Postgresql is not yet complete for UTF-8 (normalisation forms, collation, regexes...), but it'll come :) Patrice. -- Patrice Hédé email: patrice hede à islande org www : http://www.islande.org/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] pg_client_encoding

2001-10-14 Thread Patrice Hédé
ve it (I can look for it, if you want to). ISO-8859-5 to 8 aren't latin scripts. From memory, 5 is cyrillic, 6 is arabic, 7 is greek, 8 is ??? (hebrew ?)... So it would make sense to add LATIN10, still :) Patrice -- Patrice Hédé email: patrice hede à islande org www : http://www.islande.org/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Unicode combining characters

2001-10-11 Thread Patrice Hédé
tribution and the > > installation footprint, especially if the tables are already there, > > for glibc, for perl5.6+, for other software dealing with Unicode). > > > > The main functions I foresee are : > > > > - provide a normalisation function to all 4 forms, > > > > - provide a collation_key(text, language) function, as the calculation > > of the key may be expensive, some may want to index on the result (I > > would :) ), > > > > - provide a collation algorithm, using the two previous facilities, > > which can do primary to tertiary collation (cf TR#10 for a detailed > > explanation). > > > > I haven't looked at PostgreSQL code yet (shame !), so I may be > > completely off-track, in which case I'll retract myself and won't > > bother you again (on that subject, that is ;) )... > > > > Comments ? > > > > > > Patrice. > > > > [1] http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/ > > > > [2] http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/ -- Patrice Hédé email: patrice hede à islande org www : http://www.islande.org/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

[HACKERS] Mule internal code ?

2001-10-10 Thread Patrice Hédé
o-8859-2/3/4 support, or do I need to do something as iso-8859-5 ? Thank you :) Patrice. -- Patrice HÉDÉ --- patrice à islande org - -- Isn't it weird how scientists can imagine all the matter of the universe exploding out of a dot smaller than the head

[HACKERS] iso-8859-15/16 to MULE

2001-10-10 Thread Patrice Hédé
.e. use the 0x81 and 0x82 octet for these encodings) and be done with it ?? (and MENTION it in the docs ;) ). Anyway, I don't see somebody wanting support for the euro using Mule to store its strings... UTF-8 is much more important (and straightforward) to support in that case :) What do you t

Re: [HACKERS] Encoding issues

2001-10-10 Thread Patrice Hédé
tp://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ISO8859/ (you can get iso-8859-10, 13 and 14 there as well ! 10 is supposed to be for greenlandic and sámi, 13 for the baltic rim, and 14 for gaelic) Just found on google the following link, where you can see quite a few charsets (it doesn

Re: [HACKERS] Mule internal code ?

2001-10-10 Thread Patrice Hédé
acs/docs/letter/internals-letter.pdf.gz > > http://www.lns.cornell.edu/public/COMP/info/xemacs/internals/internals_15.html#SEC83 Unfortunately, these explain the principles behind mule, not the way to encode them from/to another character set :/ Patrice -- Patrice Hédé email: patrice hede à islande org www : http://www.islande.org/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[HACKERS] Mule internal code ?

2001-10-08 Thread Patrice Hédé
o-8859-2/3/4 support, or do I need to do something as iso-8859-5 ? Thank you :) Patrice. -- Patrice HÉDÉ --- patrice à islande org - -- Isn't it weird how scientists can imagine all the matter of the universe exploding out of a dot smaller than the head

[HACKERS] Combining chars in psql (pre-patch)

2001-09-26 Thread Patrice Hédé
+---++ The files in attachment : - a diff for pgsql/src/bin/psql/print.c - a diff for pgsql/src/bin/psql/Makefile - two new files : pgsql/src/bin/psql/pg_mb_utf8.c pgsql/src/bin/psql/pg_mb_utf8.h Have fun ! Patrice -- Patrice HÉDÉ --- patrice

Re: [HACKERS] Unicode combining characters

2001-09-25 Thread Patrice Hédé
have administrative rights to use the functionality). I think I will go for a C version, and probably the collation and normalisation data in tables, with some way to override the defaults with secondary tables... I'll report as soon as I have something +/- working. > -- > Tatsuo Ishii

[HACKERS] Unicode combining characters

2001-09-24 Thread Patrice Hédé
tailed explanation). I haven't looked at PostgreSQL code yet (shame !), so I may be completely off-track, in which case I'll retract myself and won't bother you again (on that subject, that is ;) )... Comments ? Patrice. [1] http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/ [