conversion procs and conversions are added in initdb. Currently
supported conversions are:

UTF-8(UNICODE) <--> SQL_ASCII, ISO-8859-1 to 16, EUC_JP, EUC_KR,
		    EUC_CN, EUC_TW, SJIS, BIG5, GBK, GB18030, UHC,
		    JOHAB, TCVN

EUC_JP <--> SJIS
EUC_TW <--> BIG5
MULE_INTERNAL <--> EUC_JP, SJIS, EUC_TW, BIG5

Note that initial contents of pg_conversion system catalog are created
in the initdb process. So doing initdb required is ideal, it's
possible to add them to your databases by hand, however. To accomplish
this:

psql -f your_postgresql_install_path/share/conversion_create.sql your_database

So I did not bump up the version in cataversion.h.

TODO:
Add more conversion procs
Add [CASCADE|RESTRICT] to DROP CONVERSION
Add tuples to pg_depend
Add regression tests
Write docs
Add SQL99 CONVERT command?
--
Tatsuo Ishii

(ODBC support has not been committed yet. left for Hiroshi...)

o  Change all current CVS messages of NOTICE to WARNING.  We were going
to do this just before 7.3 beta but it has to be done now, as you will
see below.

o Change current INFO messages that should be controlled by
client_min_messages to NOTICE.

o Force remaining INFO messages, like from EXPLAIN, VACUUM VERBOSE, etc.
to always go to the client.

o Remove INFO from the client_min_messages options and add NOTICE.

Seems we do need three non-ERROR elog levels to handle the various
behaviors we need for these messages.

Regression passed.

> > > > It was made to cope with encoding such as an Asian bloc in 7.2Beta2.
> > > >
> > > > Added ServerEncoding
> > > >         Korean (JOHAB), Thai (WIN874),
> > > >         Vietnamese (TCVN), Arabic (WIN1256)
> > > >
> > > > Added ClientEncoding
> > > >         Simplified Chinese (GBK), Korean (UHC)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> http://www.sankyo-unyu.co.jp/Pool/postgresql-7.2b2.newencoding.diff.tar.gz
> > > > (608K)
> > >
> > > Looks good.  I need some people to review this for me.
> >
> > For me they look good too. The only missing part is a
> > documentation. I will ask him to write it up. If he couldn't, I will
> > do it for him.
> > > The diff is 3mb
> > > but appears to address only additions to multibyte.  I have attached a
> > > list of files it modifies.  Also, look at the sizes of the mb/
> > > directory.  It is getting large:
> > >
> > >   4       ./CVS
> > >   6       ./Unicode/CVS
> > >   3433    ./Unicode
> > >   6197    .
> >
> > Yes. We definitely need the on-the-fly encoding addition capability:
> > i.e. CREATE CHRACTER SET in the future...
> > --
> > Tatsuo Ishii
> >
> >

Address chainge.

http://www.sankyo-unyu.co.jp/Pool/postgresql-7.2.newencoding.diff.gz

Add PsqlODBC and document ...etc patch.

Eiji Tokuya

initdb/regression tests pass.

spacing.  Also adds space for one-line comments.

tests pass.

2 is our "official" name, and 3 is alias). If there's no objection, I
will change them.

ASCII		SQL_ASCII
UTF-8		UNICODE		UTF_8
MULE-INTERNAL	MULE_INTERNAL
ISO-8859-1	LATIN1		ISO_8859_1
ISO-8859-2	LATIN2		ISO_8859_2
ISO-8859-3	LATIN3		ISO_8859_3
ISO-8859-4	LATIN4		ISO_8859_4
ISO-8859-5	ISO_8859_5
ISO-8859-6	ISO_8859_6
ISO-8859-7	ISO_8859_7
ISO-8859-8	ISO_8859_8
ISO-8859-9	LATIN5		ISO_8859_9
ISO-8859-10	LATIN6		ISO_8859_10
ISO-8859-13	LATIN7		ISO_8859_13
ISO-8859-14	LATIN8		ISO_8859_14
ISO-8859-15	LATIN9		ISO_8859_15
ISO-8859-16	LATIN10		ISO_8859_16

chars are in the input.

Also fix comment in conv.c.

* Reject character sequences those are not valid in their charset

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] encoding names
From: Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:24:38 +0200

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:30:40AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > 		- convert encoding 'name' to 'id'
>
> I thought we decided not to add functions returning "new" names until we
> know exactly what the new names should be, and pending schema

 Ok, the patch not to add functions.

> better
>
>     ...(): encoding name too long

 Fixed.

 I found new bug in command/variable.c in parse_client_encoding(), nobody
probably never see this error:

if (pg_set_client_encoding(encoding))
{
	elog(ERROR, "Conversion between %s and %s is not supported",
                     value, GetDatabaseEncodingName());
}

because pg_set_client_encoding() returns -1 for error and 0 as true.
It's fixed too.

 IMHO it can be apply.

		Karel
PS:

    * following files are renamed:

src/utils/mb/Unicode/KOI8_to_utf8.map  -->
        src/utils/mb/Unicode/koi8r_to_utf8.map

src/utils/mb/Unicode/WIN_to_utf8.map  -->
        src/utils/mb/Unicode/win1251_to_utf8.map

src/utils/mb/Unicode/utf8_to_KOI8.map -->
        src/utils/mb/Unicode/utf8_to_koi8r.map

src/utils/mb/Unicode/utf8_to_WIN.map -->
        src/utils/mb/Unicode/utf8_to_win1251.map

   * new file:

src/utils/mb/encname.c

   * removed file:

src/utils/mb/common.c

--
 Karel Zak  <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
 http://home.zf.jcu.cz/~zakkr/

 C, PostgreSQL, PHP, WWW, http://docs.linux.cz, http://mape.jcu.cz

Patches contributed by Victor Wagner.

are now separate files "postgres.h" and "postgres_fe.h", which are meant
to be the primary include files for backend .c files and frontend .c files
respectively.  By default, only include files meant for frontend use are
installed into the installation include directory.  There is a new make
target 'make install-all-headers' that adds the whole content of the
src/include tree to the installed fileset, for use by people who want to
develop server-side code without keeping the complete source tree on hand.
Cleaned up a whole lot of crufty and inconsistent header inclusions.

by Chih-Chang Hsi. See "A Patch for MIC to EUC_TW code converting in
mb support" posting in pgsql-patches list dated 09 Nov 2000.

Supported encodings are: EUC_JP, EUC_CN, EUC_KR, EUC_TW, Shift JIS,
Big5, ISO8859-[1-5].
TODO: testings! and documentations...

currently ISO8859-[1-5] and EUC_JP are supported.
support for other encodings will be coming soon.

to int so that they return the number of whcars.

for details).  It doesn't really do that much yet, since there are no
short-term memory contexts in the executor, but the infrastructure is
in place and long-term contexts are handled reasonably.  A few long-
standing bugs have been fixed, such as 'VACUUM; anything' in a single
query string crashing.  Also, out-of-memory is now considered a
recoverable ERROR, not FATAL.
Eliminate a large amount of crufty, now-dead code in and around
memory management.
Fix problem with holding off SIGTRAP, SIGSEGV, etc in postmaster and
backend startup.

SJIS UDC (NEC selection IBM kanji) support contributed by Eiji Tokuya

Update README so that it reflects all source file names
Add an entry to make sjistest (testing between SJIS/EUC_JP conversion)

o allow to use Big5 (a Chinese encoding used in Taiwan) as a client
  encoding. In this case the server side encoding should be EUC_TW

o add EUC_TW and Big5 test cases to the regression and the mb test
  (contributed by Jonah Kuo)

o fix mistake in include/mb/pg_wchar.h. An encoding id for EUC_TW was
  not correct (was 3 and now is 4)

o update documents (doc/README.mb and README.mb.jp)

o update psql helpfile (bin/psql/psqlHelp.h)

--
Tatsuo Ishii
t-ishii@sra.co.jp

support. Included patches will solve it and should be applied to
both trees.  Also, it fix the problem with \c command of psql when
switching different encoding databases.

Regression tests passed.
--
Tatsuo Ishii
t-ishii@sra.co.jp

if MULTIBYTE is not enabled. So be sure to run initdb.

o these patches are made against the latest source tree (after
Bruce's massive patch, I think) BTW, I noticed that after running
regression, the oid field of pg_type seems disappeared.

	regression=> select oid from pg_type; ERROR:  attribute
	'oid' not found

this happens after the constraints test. This occures with/without
my patches. strange...

o pg_database_mb.h, pg_class_mb.h, pg_attribute_mb.h are no longer
used, and shoud be removed.

o GetDatabaseInfo() in utils/misc/database.c removed (actually in
#ifdef 0). seems nobody uses.

t-ishii@sra.co.jp

I really hope that I haven't missed anything in this one...

From: t-ishii@sra.co.jp

Attached are patches to enhance the multi-byte support.  (patches are
against 7/18 snapshot)

* determine encoding at initdb/createdb rather than compile time

Now initdb/createdb has an option to specify the encoding. Also, I
modified the syntax of CREATE DATABASE to accept encoding option. See
README.mb for more details.

For this purpose I have added new column "encoding" to pg_database.
Also pg_attribute and pg_class are changed to catch up the
modification to pg_database.  Actually I haved added pg_database_mb.h,
pg_attribute_mb.h and pg_class_mb.h. These are used only when MB is
enabled. The reason having separate files is I couldn't find a way to
use ifdef or whatever in those files. I have to admit it looks
ugly. No way.

* support for PGCLIENTENCODING when issuing COPY command

commands/copy.c modified.

* support for SQL92 syntax "SET NAMES"

See gram.y.

* support for LATIN2-5
* add UNICODE regression test case
* new test suite for MB

New directory test/mb added.

* clean up source files

Basic idea is to have MB's own subdirectory for easier maintenance.
These are include/mb and backend/utils/mb.

\d? results in one query. Add \d? field search feature.  Rename MB
to MULTIBYTE.