Tom Lane wrote: > Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> writes: >> Hiroshi Inoue wrote: >>> What is wrong with checking if the codeset is valid using iconv_open()? > >> That would probably work as well. We'd have to decide what we'd try to >> convert from with iconv_open(). > > The problem I have with that is that you are now guessing at *two* > platform-specific encoding names not one, plus hoping there is a > conversion between the two.
AFAIK iconv_open() supports all combinations of the valid encoding values. Or we may be able to check it using the same encoding for both from and to. regards, Hiroshi Inoue -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
