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From Karel Zak
Subject Re: UTF8 or Unicode
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Msg-id 1108727582.3555.55.camel@petra
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In response to Re: UTF8 or Unicode  (Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com>)
Responses Re: UTF8 or Unicode  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
Re: UTF8 or Unicode  (Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com>)
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On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 00:27 +1300, Oliver Jowett wrote:
> Karel Zak wrote:
> 
> > Yes, I think we should fix it and remove UNICODE and WIN encoding names
> > from PG code.
> 
> The JDBC driver asks for a UNICODE client encoding before it knows the 
> server version it is talking to. How do you avoid breaking this?

Fix JDBC driver as soon as possible.

Add to 8.1 release notes: encoding names 'UNICODE' and 'WIN' are
deprecated and it will removed in next release. Please, use correct
names "UTF-8" and "WIN1215".

8.2: remove it.

OK?
Karel

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Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>

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