Tom Lane wrote:
> Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com> writes:
> > On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Sorry, but UTF-8 encoding doesn't work properly on Windows (yet).
> >> Use some other database encoding.
>
> > Shouldn't we forbid its creation then?
>
> There was serious discussion of that before the 8.0 release, but
> we decided not to forbid it. Check the archives; I don't recall
> the reasoning at the moment.
UTF8 encoding works with the C locale assuming you don't care about
ordering of the character set, e.g. Japanese.
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