Re: What's a correct or good Encoding for Postgres 9.1.2?

Many Thanks for feedback.

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[mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 7:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [GENERAL] What's a correct or good Encoding for Postgres
9.1.2?

On 05/30/12 10:17 AM, Khangelani Gama wrote:
> So talking about compatibility, you are saying we can continue using
> UTF-8?, but this will create more work for us because most of our
> scripts assume that encoding is SQL_ASCII hence we want continue
> using SQL_ASCII in Postgres 9.1.2.

SQL_ASCII is not really an encoding, its saying "this data has no
encoding at all, its just bytes". UTF-8 will reject any data thats not
properly UTF8 encoded.

converting from 'undefined' encoding to a rigorously enforced encoding is
problematic. On the other hand, working in SQL_ASCII has all kinda ugly
issues, like length(somestring) is just counting bytes, and not characters
if the string happens to be a multibyte encoded entity.
collation order is just binary. upper/lower don't work on anything
other than USASCII (eg, accented characters are ignored).

sounds to me like you're stuck in SQL_ASCII

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