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Re: pl/perl and utf-8 in sql_ascii databases

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: badalex <badalex@gmail.com>, cb <cb@df7cb.de>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-06-21T20:43:07Z
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Excerpts from Kyotaro HORIGUCHI's message of jue jun 21 08:02:58 -0400 2012:
> 
> Ouch!
> 
> > # UtfToLocal() seems to have a bug that always report illegal
> > # encoding was "UTF8" regardless of the real encoding. But
> > # plper_lc_*.(sql|out) increases if the bug is fixed.
> 
> This is not a bug. The error message "invalid byte sequence for
> encoding "UTF8"" meant "invalid INPUT byte sequence as encoding
> "UTF8"" not encoding for output.. So the regtest patch covers all
> of possible patterns - UTF8 and SQL_ASCII..

Right, that confused me too for a while.

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