Re:     H

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "stevegy" <stevegy(at)126(dot)com>
Cc: "martijn van oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, "pgsql-general(at)postgr" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;H
Date: 2006-10-05 01:50:56
Message-ID: 5819.1160013056@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"stevegy" <stevegy(at)126(dot)com> writes:
> I really want to know why the server side encoding for GB18030 is not supported?

Because it overlaps the ASCII character set, ie, it has multibyte
characters in which some of the bytes don't have the high bit set.
That creates too many parsing risks for us to be willing to deal
with it inside the backend.

regards, tom lane

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