Re: [GENERAL] trouble with to_char('L')

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>> Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
>>>>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>>>> Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
>>>>>>> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>>>>>> Where are we on this issue?
>>>>>>> Oops I forgot it completely.
>>>>>>> I have a little improved version and would post it tonight.
>>>>>> Ah, very good.  Thanks.
>>>>> Attached is an improved version.
>>>> I spent many hours on this patch and am attaching an updated version.
>>>> I have restructured the code and added many comments, but this is the
>>>> main one:
>>>>
>>>> 	*  Ideally, the server encoding and locale settings would
>>>> 	*  always match.  Unfortunately, WIN32 does not support UTF-8
>>>> 	*  values for setlocale(), even though PostgreSQL runs fine with
>>>> 	*  a UTF-8 encoding on Windows:
>>>> 	*
>>>> 	*      http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x99tb11d.aspx
>>>> 	*
>>>> 	*  Therefore, we must set LC_CTYPE to match LC_NUMERIC and
>>>> 	*  LC_MONETARY, call localeconv(), and use mbstowcs() to
>>>> 	*  convert the locale-aware string, e.g. Euro symbol, which
>>>> 	*  is not in UTF-8 to the server encoding.
>>>>
>>>> I need someone with WIN32 experience to review and test this patch.
>>> I don't understand why cache_locale_time() works on Windows.  It sets
>>> the LC_CTYPE but does not do any encoding coversion.
>> Doesn't strftime_win32 do the conversion?
> 
> Oh, I now see strftime is redefined as a macro in that C files.  Thanks.
> 
>>> Do month and
>>> day-of-week names not work either, or do they work and the encoding
>>> conversion for numeric/money, e.g. Euro, it not necessary?
>> db_strdup does the conversion.
> 
> Should we pull the encoding conversion into a separate function and have
> strftime_win32() and db_strdup() both call it?

We may be able to pull the conversion WideChars => UTF8 =>
a PG encoding into an function.

BTW both PGLC_localeconv() and cache_locale_time() save the current
  LC_CTYPE first and restore them just before returning the functions.
I'm suspicious if it's OK when errors occur in middle of the functions.

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue