Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D9A0650174 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:23:41 -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 11724-01 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:23:25 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from lists.commandprompt.com (host-159.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.159]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 723A364FD2A for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:23:29 -0300 (ADT) Received: from commandprompt.com (CPE001b63afe888-CM001adea9c5a6.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.236.211.160]) (authenticated bits=0) by lists.commandprompt.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7PDQRKw031298 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:26:30 -0700 Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:23:23 -0400 From: Andrew Sullivan To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #4279: Bad codepage in our web-site Message-ID: <20080825132323.GE8152@commandprompt.com> References: <20080822175859.GJ4131@commandprompt.com> <200808221803.m7MI3nu12836@momjian.us> <20080822191316.GL4131@commandprompt.com> <200808231545.10073.peter_e@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200808231545.10073.peter_e@gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (lists.commandprompt.com [207.173.203.159]); Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:26:31 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200808/101 X-Sequence-Number: 15691 On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 03:45:09PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > The bottom range of Unicode codepoints is the same as ISO 8859-1, but not the > bottom range of UTF-8 encoded bytes. Oh, right, silly me. Well, then, those'll need fixing, too. I'm not sure I see why this is such a problem. It's obvious that if you're going to support on-the-fly internationalisation on your site (as postgresql.org does), then you need to pick the one encoding that allows you to do that. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@commandprompt.com +1 503 667 4564 x104 http://www.commandprompt.com/