Re: Extensions, patch v20 (bitrot fixes)

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 08:01:42PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 09:03:56AM +0900, Itagaki Takahiro wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 01:34, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > >> I agree that "the default encoding is UTF-8", but it should be
> > >> configurable by the 'encoding' parameter in control files.
> > >
> > > Why is it necessary to have such a parameter at all?
> >
> > UTF-8 is not a superset of all encodings.
>
> I think you mean Unicode is not a superset of all character sets. I've
> heard this before but never found what's missing. [citation needed]?

Windows-1252, ISO-2022-JP-2 and EUC-TW are such encodings.

Cheers,
David.
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