Re: String encoding during connection "handshake"

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 05:54:05PM +0200, sulfinu(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:
> Regarding the problem of "One True Encoding", the answer seems obvious to me:
> use only one encoding per database cluster, either UTF-8 or UTF-16 or another
> Unicode-aware scheme, whichever yields a statistically smaller database for
> the languages employed by the users in their data. This encoding should be a
> one time choice! De facto, this is already happening now, because one cannot
> change collation rules after a cluster has been created.

Umm, each database in a cluster can have a different encoding, so there
is no such thing as the "cluster's encoding". You can certainly argue
that it should be a one time choice, but I doubt you'll get people to
remove the possibilites we have now. If fact, if anything we'd probably
go the otherway, allow you to select the collation on a per
database/table/column level (SQL complaince requires this).

This has nothing to do with C by the way. C has many features that
allow you to work with different encodings. It just doesn't force you
to use any particular one.

Have a nice day,
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