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Re: UTF8 national character data type support WIP patch and list of open issues. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: UTF8 national character data type support WIP patch and list of open issues.
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Msg-id 29319.1384388888@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: UTF8 national character data type support WIP patch and list of open issues.  (Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: UTF8 national character data type support WIP patch and list of open issues.  (Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>)
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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.
        regards, tom lane

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