Re: charset/collation in values

Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
> The named entity that is called a collation works for a character
> repertoire. It would need to handle different charsets for that
> repertoire of course. So there would be one collation called say
> ucs_sv and not utf8_sv, utf16_sv, utf32_sv.

Again, theoretically, this might work, but I doubt that this is a
practical implementation. Moreover, since Unicode is more or less the
only chararacter repertoire that have more than one encoding in use,
and neither UTF-16 nor UTF-32 can be used inside the PostgreSQL server
(embedded zero bytes etc.), this is really a nonissue.

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Peter Eisentraut
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