[PATCH] GeoIP module: UTF-8 support in city names

Denis F. Latypoff latypoff at yandex.ru
Thu Jan 27 13:42:16 MSK 2011


27.01.2011, 13:37, "Igor Sysoev" <igor at sysoev.ru>:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 01:33:30PM +0300, Denis F. Latypoff wrote:
>
>>  27.01.2011, 13:26, "Igor Sysoev" <igor at sysoev.ru>;:
>>>  On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 01:19:36PM +0300, Denis F. Latypoff wrote:
>>>>   Hello, by default GeoIP returns ISO-8859-1 encoded city names which
>>>>   is not suitable sometimes (e.g varchar utf8 in the DB may cause broken
>>>>   names, etc). So attached patch allows to use UTF-8 in city names.
>>>  May be, it's better to use UTF-8 always ?
>>>  Will it break current non-UTF-8 setups ?
>>  I'd prefer UTF-8 by default, but yes it will break current setup.
>>  People might used special decoders from latin1 to utf-8, so
>>  default utf-8 may break behavior.
>
> Could you show examples of such names in latin1 ?

83.35.39.149 - Gijón
85.225.255.179 - Göteborg
189.62.57.30 - São Paulo

-- 
br, Denis F. Latypoff.



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