Re: unaccent extension missing some accents
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: J Smith <dark.panda+lists@gmail.com>, Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-11-10T21:18:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> However, the bigger picture is that OS X's UTF8 locales are broken >> through-and-through, and most of their other problems are not feasible >> to work around. > If Apple's low-level code came from FreeBSD and NetBSD, how did they get > so broken? AFAIK, they're broken in the BSDen too, or at least were when Apple branched off from whichever BSD they started from (which was years ago). There may be a better solution available upstream by now, but it doesn't appear to me that Apple has any interest in fixing this area. regards, tom lane