Re: Pre-proposal: unicode normalized text

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Nico Williams <nico(at)cryptonector(dot)com>
Cc: Isaac Morland <isaac(dot)morland(at)gmail(dot)com>, Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Pre-proposal: unicode normalized text
Date: 2023-10-06 19:07:17
Message-ID: 083d7e05cfe1742490b0f6c5e0accd4159fae0f6.camel@j-davis.com
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On Fri, 2023-10-06 at 13:33 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> What I think people really want is a whole column in
> some encoding that isn't the normal one for that database.

Do people really want that? I'd be curious to know why.

A lot of modern projects are simply declaring UTF-8 to be the "one true
way". I am not suggesting that we do that, but it seems odd to go in
the opposite direction and have greater flexibility for many encodings.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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