Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FD7A64FCD9 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:27:04 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 07520-06 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:27:03 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from gattler.pezone.net (eisentraut.org [85.214.91.16]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E46764FCC9 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:27:03 -0300 (ADT) Received: from dhcp-eesp05-101-72.Finland.Sun.COM (gmp-ea-fw-1.sun.com [192.18.1.36]) by gattler.pezone.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8029615F0822; Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:26:58 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <48CE1C5D.8080206@gmx.net> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:27:09 +0300 From: Peter Eisentraut User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Page CC: Nikolay Samokhvalov , PostgreSQL-documentation Subject: Re: Russian FAQ page charset problem References: <48CE0F0B.4060600@gmx.net> <937d27e10809150048v58483686v646e6db4a9335bf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <937d27e10809150048v58483686v646e6db4a9335bf@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200809/13 X-Sequence-Number: 4974 Dave Page wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Nikolay Samokhvalov > wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Peter Eisentraut 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.