Re: What's a good default encoding?

From: Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
To: pgsql-general General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: What's a good default encoding?
Date: 2006-03-20 22:53:25
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On Mar 16, 2006, at 3:36 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> Umm, you should choose an encoding supported by your platform and the
> locales you use. For example, UTF-8 is a bad choice on *BSD because
> there is no collation support for UTF-8 on those platforms. On
> Linux/Glibc UTF-8 is well supported but you need to make sure the

Shouldn't postgres be providing the collating routines for UTF8
anyhow? How else can we guarantee identical behavior across platforms?

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