Re: Bug in UTF8-Validation Code? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Bug in UTF8-Validation Code?
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Msg-id 21381.1175696548@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Bug in UTF8-Validation Code?  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Re: Bug in UTF8-Validation Code?
Re: Bug in UTF8-Validation Code?
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Right -- IMHO what we should be doing is reject any input to chr() which
> is beyond plain ASCII (or maybe > 255), and create a separate function
> (unicode_char() sounds good) to get an Unicode character from a code
> point, converted to the local client_encoding per conversion_procs.

Hm, I hadn't thought of that approach, but another idea is that the
argument of chr() is *always* a unicode code point, and it converts
to the current encoding.  Do we really need a separate function?
        regards, tom lane


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