| From: | "Randall Parker" <randall(at)nls(dot)net> |
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| To: | "Tatsuo Ishii" <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, "tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "giles(at)nemeton(dot)com(dot)au" <giles(at)nemeton(dot)com(dot)au>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Thoughts on multiple simultaneous code page support |
| Date: | 2000-06-22 18:14:23 |
| Message-ID: | 18121122585963@mail.nls.net |
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Well, to me at least the term character set does not define a mapping or encoding. It just specifies a list of characters and their numeric representations or mappings not included.
To say "character set mapping" or "character set encoding" might be more complete. Though I tend to use the term "code page" because that's what I've heard the most down thru the years.
If someone here wants to suggest a particular terminology to use I'd be happy to adopt it in this list.
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:14:43 +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>Oh, I see.
>
>Randall, why do we need to use the term then? Shouldn't we use more
>standard term "character set" or "charset" instead?
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