Re: Server-side support of all encodings - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Server-side support of all encodings
Date
Msg-id 20070329185405.GA17519@svana.org
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In response to Re: Server-side support of all encodings  ("Dezso Zoltan" <dezso.zoltan@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:44:00AM +0900, Dezso Zoltan wrote:
> My question is, however: what would be the best practice if it was
> imperative to use SJIS encoding for texts and no built-in conversions
> are useful? To elaborate, I need to support japanese emoji characters,
> which are special emoticons for mobile phones. These characters are
> usually in a region that is not specified by the standard SJIS,

Unicode also defines a region for user-defined characters. While it may
be odd, perhaps it would be reasonable to map the user-defined space in
SJIS to somewhere in the user-defined pace in Unicode, so that at least
you round-trip consistancy.

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.

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