Re: Language support of postgresql

On 4/28/2017 7:45 AM, Martel, Hong wrote:
>
> As I understand, currently Postgres doesn’t support Chinese encoding
> GBK and BIG5 on both server and client side, only UNICODE. Is it
> true? Are there any plans for postgresql team to implement GBK and
> BIG5 encoding anytime soon?
>
> Are there any alternative solutions for this besides switching our
> database to Oracle or others that support the encodings? One of our
> customers insists that we need to support all three encoding (BIG5,
> GB2312安and UNICODE). We would love to stick to Postgres if there is
> any alternative way to solve the problem without incurring big cost.
>

I thought Postgres supported client_encodings of BIG5, GB18030, and GBK,
all of which can be stored in the server using either UTF8 or
MULE_INTERNAL (MultiLingual EMACS) encodings for internal storage ?

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