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Included are patches intended for allowing PostgreSQL to handle multi-byte charachter sets such as EUC(Extende Unix Code), Unicode and Mule internal code. With the MB patch you can use multi-byte character sets in regexp and LIKE. The encoding system chosen is determined at the compile time. To enable the MB extension, you need to define a variable "MB" in Makefile.global or in Makefile.custom. For further information please take a look at README.mb under doc directory. (Note that unlike "jp patch" I do not use modified GNU regexp any more. I changed Henry Spencer's regexp coming with PostgreSQL.)
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postgresql 6.3 multi-byte(MB) patch PL2 README Mar 10 1998
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Tatsuo Ishii
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t-ishii@sra.co.jp
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http://www.sra.co.jp/people/t-ishii/PostgreSQL/
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Introduction
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MB patch is intended for allowing PostgreSQL to handle multi-byte
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charachter sets such as EUC(Extende Unix Code), Unicode and Mule
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internal code. With the MB patch you can use multi-byte character sets
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in regexp and LIKE. The encoding system chosen is determined at the
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compile time.
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The patch also fixes some problems concerning with 8-bit single byte
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character sets including ISO8859. (I would not say all of problems
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have been fixed. I just confirmed that the regression test ran fine
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and a few French characters could be used with the patch. Please let
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me know if you find any problem while using 8-bit characters)
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How to use
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After applying the MB patch, create src/Makefile.custom with a line
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including:
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MB=encoding_system
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where encoding_system is one of:
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EUC_JP Japanese EUC
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EUC_CN Chinese EUC
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EUC_KR Korean EUC
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EUC_TW Taiwan EUC
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UNICODE Unicode(UTF-8)
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MULE_INTERNAL Mule internal
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Example:
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% cat Makefile.custom
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MB=EUC_JP
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If MB is not defined, nothing is changed except better supporting for
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8-bit single byte character sets.
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References
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These are good sources to start learning various kind of encoding
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systems.
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ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/nutshell/ujip/doc/cjk.inf
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Detailed explanations of EUC_JP, EUC_CN, EUC_KR, EUC_TW
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appear in section 3.2.
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Unicode: http://www.unicode.org/
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The homepage of UNICODE.
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RFC 2044
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UTF-8 is defined here.
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History
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Mar 10, 1998 PL2 released
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* add regression test for EUC_JP, EUC_CN and MULE_INTERNAL
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* add an English document (this file)
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* fix problems concerning 8-bit single byte characters
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Mar 1, 1998 PL1 released
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