Re: Lexing with different charsets

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Fabien COELHO wrote:

> > ... WHERE field1 = _latin1'FooBar' and field2 = _utf8'Åäö'
> >
> > different charsets or this is not going to work very well.
>
> What "editor" or terminal is supposed to be able to generate text in
> different encodings depending on the part of the sentence? I don't think I
> have that in emacs. Or is it irrelevant??
>
> I cannot see where I could use such a feature.

Applications usually generate queries. So you can do things like

printf ("SELECT * FROM foo WHERE field1 = _latin1'%s';", my_latin1_data);

for use on the terminal one would need to use some escaping/encoding much
like is done with bytea. For example something like _latin1 H'0a660d' (but
that is not sql-standard).

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/Dennis Björklund