From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
cc: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
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Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 11:22=E2=80=AFAM Nico Williams <nico@cryptonecto=
r.com> wrote:
>> How about supporting only UTF-8 locales?

> Yeah, if nobody noticed this wasn't working at all, then it makes
> sense to defer the generation of .mo files for non-UTF-8 codesets
> until someone eventually does notice that it still doesn't work in
> legacy locales and feels inclined to do something about it, ie
> forever.  Tom's goal of having basic tests pass will be satisfied by
> UTF-8-only.

Right.  For the moment I only care about verifying that (a) some
translation happens and (b) the PRI* macros work as-expected.
Since we've already discovered platform-specific failures on both
points, this seems like a very worthwhile exercise.

Encoding-specific behaviors might be worth testing later, but
I'm not excited about that personally.

			regards, tom lane