Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com> writes:
> On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Sorry, but UTF-8 encoding doesn't work properly on Windows (yet).
>> Use some other database encoding.
> Shouldn't we forbid its creation then?
There was serious discussion of that before the 8.0 release, but
we decided not to forbid it. Check the archives; I don't recall
the reasoning at the moment.
> We see these complaints too often.
There are lots of complaints we see way too often ;-) ... but
distressingly, there are still only 24 hours in a day.
regards, tom lane
