Re: US-ASCII on Mac OS X - Mailing list pgsql-ports

Markus Bertheau wrote:
> Where's the incompatibility here? I always thought UTF-8 was binary
> compatible with ASCII for characters in ASCII.

It is for characters in ASCII, but not for the whole 8-bit range.  It
depends on the particular circumstances whether it's appropriate to
use.

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Peter Eisentraut
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