Re: UTF8 or Unicode - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: UTF8 or Unicode
Date
Msg-id 200502151433.30318.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: UTF8 or Unicode  (Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>)
Responses Re: UTF8 or Unicode  (Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>)
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Am Dienstag, 15. Februar 2005 10:22 schrieb Karel Zak:
> in PG: unicode = utf8 = utf-8
>
> Our internal routines in src/backend/utils/mb/encnames.c accept all
> synonyms. The "official" internal PG name for UTF-8 is "UNICODE" :-(

I think in the SQL standard the official name is UTF8.  If someone wants to 
verify that this is the case and is exactly the encoding we offer (perhaps 
modulo the 0x10000 issue), then it might make sense to change the canonical 
form to UTF8.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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