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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: Nikolay Samokhvalov <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Russian FAQ page charset problem
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:27:09 +0300
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Dave Page wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Nikolay Samokhvalov
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> 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.

We could do that, but it is also a question of what the author prefers 
for editing.  We don't require UTF-8 in other places.  And I don't feel 
comfortable converting everything (FAQ or not) to UTF-8, because that 
loses information in some cases.

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