Re: UTF8 or Unicode

From: Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>
To: Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>
Cc: List pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: UTF8 or Unicode
Date: 2005-02-18 11:53:02
Message-ID: 1108727582.3555.55.camel@petra
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On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 00:27 +1300, Oliver Jowett wrote:
> Karel Zak wrote:
>
> > Yes, I think we should fix it and remove UNICODE and WIN encoding names
> > from PG code.
>
> The JDBC driver asks for a UNICODE client encoding before it knows the
> server version it is talking to. How do you avoid breaking this?

Fix JDBC driver as soon as possible.

Add to 8.1 release notes: encoding names 'UNICODE' and 'WIN' are
deprecated and it will removed in next release. Please, use correct
names "UTF-8" and "WIN1215".

8.2: remove it.

OK?

Karel

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Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>

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