| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Randall Parker <randall(at)nls(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, "tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "giles(at)nemeton(dot)com(dot)au" <giles(at)nemeton(dot)com(dot)au>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Thoughts on multiple simultaneous code page support |
| Date: | 2000-06-22 18:54:17 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0006221553200.1098-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Randall Parker wrote:
> Well, to me at least the term character set does not define a mapping or encoding. It just specifies a list of characters and their numeric representations or mappings not included.
>
> To say "character set mapping" or "character set encoding" might be more complete. Though I tend to use the term "code page" because that's what I've heard the most down thru the years.
>
> If someone here wants to suggest a particular terminology to use I'd
> be happy to adopt it in this list.
codepages are used by the samba folks also, if this helps any ... I never
knew what it meant before, but now that I do, makes perfect sense ...
its like using tuples/fields vs rows/columns :) one is right, the other
is lazy :)
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