Re: CP949 for EUC-KR?

Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>

From: Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-04-27T11:23:37Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

> > Should we add (or replace) CP949 for EUC-KR?
> 
> No. CP949 is not plain EUC-KR, but EUC-KR with some extensions (UHC). At
> least on CVS HEAD, we recognize CP949 as an alias for the PostgreSQL
> PG_UHC encoding.

That's it! We should have added an additional alias to chklocale, too.

Index: src/port/chklocale.c
===================================================================
--- src/port/chklocale.c	(HEAD)
+++ src/port/chklocale.c	(fixed)
@@ -172,6 +172,7 @@
 	{PG_GBK, "CP936"},
 
 	{PG_UHC, "UHC"},
+	{PG_UHC, "CP949"},
 
 	{PG_JOHAB, "JOHAB"},
 	{PG_JOHAB, "CP1361"},


Except UHC, we don't have any codepage aliases for the encodings below.
I assume we don't need to add CPxxx because Windows does not have
corresponding codepages for them, right?

    {PG_LATIN6, "ISO-8859-10"},
    {PG_LATIN7, "ISO-8859-13"},
    {PG_LATIN8, "ISO-8859-14"},
    {PG_LATIN10, "ISO-8859-16"},
    {PG_SHIFT_JIS_2004, "SJIS_2004"},

Regards,
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Takahiro Itagaki
NTT Open Source Software Center