Re: SQL_ASCII and UNICODE server_encoding - Mailing list pgsql-sql

Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.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.
        regards, tom lane