UNICODE

From: "Per Aronsson" <per(at)mobilehits(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: UNICODE
Date: 2001-10-25 15:16:22
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Hi,

To enable localization of our new platform, we thought that saving all
character strings as UNICODE would be a good idea. Even if the front-end
(PHP) doesn't fully support UNICODE yet, we figured it's still good to have
the database in that format, for the future. We have not installed
mb_string.

We have created a UNICODE database and started experimenting with it
(PostgreSQL)
./configure --enable-multibyte
createdb -E UNICODE me-e

My question is: do you need to convert strings to UTF-8 before adding them
to the database, or is that done "automatically"?

Best regards,
Per Aronsson

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