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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
Tatsuo Ishii
t-ishii@sra.co.jp
http://www.sra.co.jp/people/t-ishii/PostgreSQL/
Introduction
MB patch is 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.
The patch also fixes some problems concerning with 8-bit single byte
character sets including ISO8859. (I would not say all of problems
have been fixed. I just confirmed that the regression test ran fine
and a few French characters could be used with the patch. Please let
me know if you find any problem while using 8-bit characters)
How to use
After applying the MB patch, create src/Makefile.custom with a line
including:
MB=encoding_system
where encoding_system is one of:
EUC_JP Japanese EUC
EUC_CN Chinese EUC
EUC_KR Korean EUC
EUC_TW Taiwan EUC
UNICODE Unicode(UTF-8)
MULE_INTERNAL Mule internal
Example:
% cat Makefile.custom
MB=EUC_JP
If MB is not defined, nothing is changed except better supporting for
8-bit single byte character sets.
References
These are good sources to start learning various kind of encoding
systems.
ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/nutshell/ujip/doc/cjk.inf
Detailed explanations of EUC_JP, EUC_CN, EUC_KR, EUC_TW
appear in section 3.2.
Unicode: http://www.unicode.org/
The homepage of UNICODE.
RFC 2044
UTF-8 is defined here.
History
Mar 10, 1998 PL2 released
* add regression test for EUC_JP, EUC_CN and MULE_INTERNAL
* add an English document (this file)
* fix problems concerning 8-bit single byte characters
Mar 1, 1998 PL1 released