Re: Question regarding UTF-8 data and "C" collation on definition of field of table

Why are you specifying the collation to be "C" when the default db encoding
is UTF8, and UTF-8 has Greek, Chinese and English encodings?

On 2/5/23 17:08, Dionisis Kontominas wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>   I have a question regarding the definition of the type of a character
> field in a table and more specifically about its collation and UTF-8
> characters and strings.
>
>   Let's say that the definition is for example as follows:
>
>     name character varying(8) COLLATE pg_catalog."C" NOT NULL
>
> and also assume that the database default encoding is UTF8 and also the
> Collate and Ctype is "C"". I plan to store strings of various languages in
> this field.
>
> Are these the correct settings that I should have used on creation of
> the database?.
>
> Thank you in Advance!
>
> Kindest regards,
>
> Dionisis Kontominas

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