| From: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Mage <mage(at)mage(dot)hu> |
| Subject: | Re: is this a bug or I am blind? |
| Date: | 2005-12-18 02:33:09 |
| Message-ID: | 87k6e3b0d6.fsf@stark.xeocode.com |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Greg Stark wrote:
> > Using iso-8859-1 to encode "é" as a single byte versus using UTF8
> > which would take two bytes to encode it is an issue of using two
> > *different* encodings.
>
> But that's not what we are discussing.
The poster to which Tom was responding was bringing it up as an issue.
I was explaining how it was different.
> > There is a separate issue that some characters could theoretically
> > have multiple representations even within the same encoding.
>
> That is what we are discussing.
Well the original discussion about the hungarian strings was about yet a third
case entirely. Two different sequences of characters that have the same
semantic significance.
--
greg
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