Hi, I would like to propose adding new character set "JIS X 0213"(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIS_X_0213).
JIS X 0213 is a relatively new Japanese goverment standard (defined in 2000, revised in 2004), and becomes important for Japanese users. Moreover some commercial OSs including Windows VISTA support JIS X 0213(some open source OSs support too, of course). So I believe supporting JIS X 0213 in upcoming 8.3 will be usefull for Japanese users and will help spreading PostgreSQL more. Since JIS X 0213 is a character set, we need to add encodings supporting it. Here are lists of additional encodings (specifications are already published by the goverment). 1) EUC-JIS-2004 prposed encoding name: EUC_JIS_2004 including following character sets: - ASCII - JIS X 0213 plane 1 - JIS X 0201 "katakana" - JIS X 0213 plane 2 Note that since encoding schema of EUC_JIS_2004 is exactly identical to EUC_JP, we can reuse existing encoding routines defined in utls/mb/*.c. 2) Shift-JIS-2004 prposed encoding name: SHIFT_JIS_2004 including following character sets(same as EUC-JIS-2004): - ASCII - JIS X 0213 plane 1 - JIS X 0201 "katakana" - JIS X 0213 plane 2 Note that this is client encoding only due to the same reason as SJIS. Note that encoding schema of SHIFT_JIS_2004 is exactly identical to SJIS, we can reuse existing encoding routines defined in utils/mb/*.c. 3) UTF-8 Actually already supported by the recent version of PostgreSQL and no additional work required. o About encoding conversion I will add encoding conversios among EUC_JIS_2004, SHIFT_JIS_2004 and UTF-8. Including are patches against CVS head which should illustrate what I'm proposing in detail. If there's no objection, I will commit them along with documentation changes, regression updates and bump up catalog version. After that I will develop conversion part(it will take several days). comments, suggestions are welcome. -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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