Re: PostgreSQL Gotchas - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: PostgreSQL Gotchas
Date
Msg-id 200510062204.j96M4ni08050@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL Gotchas  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
List pgsql-general
Stephen Frost wrote:
> UNICODE means "UTF-8"
>   This is an interesting point.  To be perfectly honest, it seems like
>   Postgres' UNICODE/UTF-8/etc support could stand to be somewhat better.
>   I've not used it much myself but I do see comments about it on the
>   lists from time to time.  I think there was some work done on this
>   for 8.1 and I expect support will only continue to improve in these
>   areas.

Yes, this is completely fixed in 8.1, except we allow UNICODE to be a
synonym for UTF-8.  We also added Win32 support for UTF8 in 8.1.

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