Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:40:49AM +0400, Nikolay Samokhvalov wrote: >> What is 'lack of interest'? Interest from community, or major >> developers, or your personal one? > Kind of all three, feeding off eachother. There's just not enough > interest from any front to really get it moving. It's a fairly invasive > change and without significant support and interest from somewhere, > chances of completion let alone acceptance are pretty slim... I think there was also considerable concern about introducing a dependency on a very large chunk of outside software (viz, ICU). Loss of control, licensing questions, etc. Of course, doing it *without* ICU is even more daunting :-( but I'd like to think we'll get there someday. regards, tom lane
