Re: Multiple character encodings within a single database/table? - Mailing list pgsql-general

Steve Atkins wrote:
>
> On Mar 23, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
> > If I have the C locale, can I have multiple character encodings
> > within:
> > 1.  A single database?
> > 2.  A single table?
>
> No.
>
> >
> > More specifically, I would like to be able to have Unicode columns and
> > ASCII text columns within the same table.  Is this possible?  If so,
> > how
> > do I achieve it?
>
> Any valid ascii string is also a valid utf8 string. You can probably
> just use utf8 for everything.

More specifically, ASCII bytes are valid UTF8 values.

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