| From: | Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)oryx(dot)com>, List pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: UTF8 or Unicode |
| Date: | 2005-02-18 09:28:00 |
| Message-ID: | 1108718880.3555.12.camel@petra |
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On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 14:33 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 15. Februar 2005 10:22 schrieb Karel Zak:
> > in PG: unicode = utf8 = utf-8
> >
> > Our internal routines in src/backend/utils/mb/encnames.c accept all
> > synonyms. The "official" internal PG name for UTF-8 is "UNICODE" :-(
>
> I think in the SQL standard the official name is UTF8. If someone wants to
> verify that this is the case and is exactly the encoding we offer (perhaps
> modulo the 0x10000 issue), then it might make sense to change the canonical
> form to UTF8.
Yes, I think we should fix it and remove UNICODE and WIN encoding names
from PG code.
Karel
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Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>
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