| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp> |
| Cc: | hannu(at)tm(dot)ee, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Status report: regex replacement |
| Date: | 2003-02-11 17:42:45 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0302111437160.7753-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Tatsuo Ishii writes:
> > UTF-8 seems to be the most popular, but even XML standard requires all
> > compliant implementations to deal with at least both UTF-8 and UTF-16.
>
> I don't think PostgreSQL is going to natively support UTF-16.
At FOSDEM it was claimed that Windows natively uses UCS-2, and there are
also continuing rumours that the Java Unicode encoding is not quite UTF-8,
so there is going to be a certain pressure to support other Unicode
encodings besides UTF-8.
As for the names, the SQL standard defines most of those.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
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