Re: Encoding Issue with UNICODE - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephane Bortzmeyer
Subject Re: Encoding Issue with UNICODE
Date
Msg-id 20050414075628.GA26171@nic.fr
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In response to Re: Encoding Issue with UNICODE  (fritz-bayer@web.de (Fritz Bayer))
List pgsql-general
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:39:45AM -0700,
 Fritz Bayer <fritz-bayer@web.de> wrote
 a message of 53 lines which said:

> I mean unicode itself is 16 bit long.

This is completely false. Unicode itself is just a table and, since it
contains more than 100,000 characters, you cannot index them with 16
bits.

Unicode has various encodings, some fixed-size, like UTF-32, some not.

> So "münchen" should expand to 14 characters. But only ü expands to
> two characters.

Perfectly normal with UTF-8, where the size of an Unicode charactere
is not fixed.

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