Re: SQL_ASCII and UNICODE server_encoding

O kyrios Tom Lane egrapse stis Aug 16, 2004 :

> Achilleus Mantzios <achill(at)matrix(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com> writes:
> > So if SQL_ASCII should be fine for UTF-8 storage.
> > (here i must have missed something, tho..), whats
> > the purpose of server_encoding=UNICODE?
>
> If you use SQL_ASCII, the server will *store* Unicode just fine, but
> it won't *know* it is Unicode. So if you just want raw data storage
> it doesn't matter. If you would like to sort the data, upper-case
> or lower-case it, or have automatic conversions to different client
> encodings, you had better tell the server the truth about what it
> is storing.

Thanx, i guess i didnt realize the value of conversion,sorting,etc...

>
> regards, tom lane
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