Re: Encoding Issue with UNICODE

From: John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com>
To: fritz-bayer(at)web(dot)de (Fritz Bayer)
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Encoding Issue with UNICODE
Date: 2005-04-12 17:51:01
Message-ID: 6EBED09E-AB7B-11D9-807C-000A95B03262@pgedit.com
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On Apr 12, 2005, at 6:39 AM, Fritz Bayer wrote:

> But in which encoding? I guess utf8 or utf16...
>
> But why doesn that fail only for äüö? Shouldn't any other letter
> encoded in utf16 also fail?
>
> I mean unicode itself is 16 bit long. So "münchen" should expand to 14
> characters. But only ü expands to two characters.

PostgreSQL only supports utf-8. There has been discussion of using a
label other than "unicode" to make this more apparent.

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL

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