| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Karsten Hilbert <Karsten(dot)Hilbert(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: libpq Unicode support? |
| Date: | 2005-04-22 22:08:33 |
| Message-ID: | 200504222208.j3MM8XF25236@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 05:28:28PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > UTF-16 ? If so *should* it be supported in, say, 9.0 ? If not,
> > > should there be a FAQ item saying why not ?
> >
> > Is there a reason you have to use UTF16?
> No. I don't currently use either one (that is I am using a
> "unicode" database with appropriate "set client_encoding"s
> which works as expected. I am just wondering whether we should
> add a FAQ item why UTF16 doesn't need to be supported.
Well, we need to support UTF16 on Win32 only because Win32 libc
libraries doesn't support UTF8, but other than that UTF16 isn't much of
an issue for our users.
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