| From: | Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com> | 
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> | 
| Cc: | Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Re: Encoding issues | 
| Date: | 2008-09-19 22:55:08 | 
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSO.4.64.0809191852350.32123@leary.csoft.net | 
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On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
> It wouldn't be entirely unreasonable to define the answer as "UTF-8".
> That would at least provide serviceable behavior to a goodly group of
> users, whereas the current implementation seems guaranteed to fail
> for everyone (other than us ASCII-only Neanderthals who don't care
> anyway...)
>
I've committed a change to the driver to send all initial startup data in 
UTF-8.  It wouldn't be tough to expose this as a URL parameter for 
initialConnectionEncoding because I've refactored the encoding decisions 
out of UnixCrypt and MD5Digest.  I haven't done that at this point because 
I'm lazy and I'm not sure how many people actually need such a feature.
Kris Jurka
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