Re: Unicode string literals versus the world - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Unicode string literals versus the world
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Msg-id 200904141356.58553.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Unicode string literals versus the world  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On Saturday 11 April 2009 21:50:29 Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 4/11/09 11:47 AM, Marko Kreen wrote:
> > On 4/11/09, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>  wrote:
> >>   It gets worse though: I have seldom seen such a badly designed piece
> >> of syntax as the Unicode string syntax --- see
> >>  
> >> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/sql-syntax-lexical.html#
> >>SQL-SYNTAX-STRINGS-UESCAPE
>
> WTF?  Whose feature is this?  What's the use case?

The use case is approximately the same as &#xxxx; in HTML: entering Unicode 
characters that your screen or keyboard cannot easily produce.  It's a 
desperately needed feature for me.



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