[postgis-users] re: shp2sql and UTF8 question on Windows

[strk at refractions.net]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 11:00:29AM +0100, Markus Schaber wrote:
> Hi, Strk,
> 
> 
> strk at refractions.net wrote:
> >>[-e option]
> > I wouldn't add too many possible configurations.
> > If you want locale support just install iconv and that'd enable it.
> 
> That doesn't work for users of prepackaged binaries, e. G. the current
> win32 build. And AFAIR the current debian packages from Alex build
> without ICONV, too.

That's a problem with packagers, not postgis.

> > If autoconf is not that smart in finding it we should fix it.
> 
> That's correct. Maybe we should issue clear warnings when iconf is not
> found.

We do report ICONV use in last lines from ./configure.

> > What does postgresql uses for locales, btw ?
> 
> I tend to believe that they use their own implementation, as I cannot
> see any iconv dependency, and the release notes on
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/release-8-1.html mentioned
> some added encodings and conversions, as well as "added support
> four-byte UTF8 characters" where they only supported 1-3 bytes before.

If they have convincing reasons not to use iconv we *might*
do the same.

--strk;