Re: UTF8 or Unicode

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Freitag, 25. Februar 2005 16:26 schrieb Bruce Momjian:
> > OK, but what about latin1?
>
> The following character set names are specified in the SQL standard and
> therefore somewhat non-negotiable:
>
> SQL_CHARACTER
> GRAPHIC_IRV
> LATIN1
> ISO8BIT
> UTF16
> UTF8
> UCS2
> SQL_TEXT
> SQL_IDENTIFIER
>
> So we have to use LATIN1, even though it creates an inconsistency. We
> discussed this a while ago during the last great renaming, I think.
>

Oh, UTF8 and not UTF-8? I thought UTF-8 was the standard name, but if
ANSI uses UTF8 we will have to use that.

> Btw., I think ISO8BIT is the correct name for what we call SQL_ASCII, but I
> haven't analyzed that in detail, yet.

OK, please let us know.

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