Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PATCHES] char/varchar locale support

speaking of archives, the digest archives are a little hard to use..
a standard mailing list archive would be grand -- I can probably point
to some software if need be. are the postgres lists archived in the
standard majordomo way? (as in, berkeley mail format?)

On Mon, 18 May 1998, at 16:29:13, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:

> > I can't remember what the outcome was, but what about UNICODE?
> > One of the partially implemented bits of JDBC is the handling of
> > UNICODE strings (which Java uses all the time).
>
> I can't remember the outcome either, but when this was discussed on the
> list earlier I had posted a url reference to a character coding
> discussion from the DocBook SGML folks. I vaguely recall that (for their
> typesetting purposes) UNICODE didn't solve all problems.
>
> I also vaguely recall that the most common extended-byte encoding
> sequence is that used in Japan (EUC-jp?).
>
> Are we ready to gear up for another discussion on this topic? If so,
> someone should go through the archives and summarize the previous
> discussions so we don't re-invent the wheel...
>
> - Tom