UTF8 or Unicode

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: UTF8 or Unicode
Date: 2005-02-15 02:14:54
Message-ID: 200502150214.j1F2Es212472@candle.pha.pa.us
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Should our multi-byte encoding be referred to as UTF8 or Unicode?
I know UTF8 is a type of unicode but do we need to rename anything from
Unicode to UTF8?

Someone asked me via private email.

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