Re: What's a good default encoding? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Vivek Khera
Subject Re: What's a good default encoding?
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Msg-id 231FDDF0-B684-4B0C-A045-BCBBA05F440E@khera.org
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In response to Re: What's a good default encoding?  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
Responses Re: What's a good default encoding?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Re: What's a good default encoding?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mar 16, 2006, at 3:36 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> Umm, you should choose an encoding supported by your platform and the
> locales you use. For example, UTF-8 is a bad choice on *BSD because
> there is no collation support for UTF-8 on those platforms. On
> Linux/Glibc UTF-8 is well supported but you need to make sure the

Shouldn't postgres be providing the collating routines for UTF8
anyhow?  How else can we guarantee identical behavior across platforms?


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