From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <200809231801.m8NI1fk25513@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: Russian FAQ page charset problem
In-Reply-To: <937d27e10809150048v58483686v646e6db4a9335bf@mail.gmail.com>
To: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:01:41 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov@gmail.com>,
	Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>,
	PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
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Dave Page wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Nikolay Samokhvalov
> <samokhvalov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> >> This was already discussed on the pgsql-www list recently, but there has
> >> been no resolution on what to do yet.
> >
> > What about using UTF8 for Russian text? Why not simply "iconv -f
> > koi8-r -t utf8 ..."?
> 
> I thought that was what Bruce was going to do. He has other priorities
> at the moment though, so perhaps one of the the committers could
> handle it.

No, the conversion to a UTF8 header is done by the web infrastructure; 
the file in CVS is in the native Russian encoding, koi8-r, and I don't
know how to change that.

However, it now seems all the FAQs are in ASCII or UTF8 so I think we
are OK going into the future.

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