> Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> writes:
>>> MULE is completely evil.
>>> It has N different encodings for the same character,
>
>> What's wrong with that? It aims that in the first place.
>
> It greatly complicates comparisons --- at least, if you'd like to preserve
> the principle that strings that appear the same are equal.
You don't need to consider it because there's no place in PostgreSQL
where a MULE encoded text consists of multiple encodings as far as I
know.
BTW, same characters are assigned different code points are pretty
common in many character sets (Unicode, for example).
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