Re: [HACKERS] UNICODE characters above 0x10000 - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: [HACKERS] UNICODE characters above 0x10000
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Msg-id 4114B32B.8080509@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] UNICODE characters above 0x10000  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> Now it's entirely possible that the underlying support is a few bricks
> shy of a load --- for instance I see that pg_utf_mblen thinks there are
> no UTF8 codes longer than 3 bytes whereas your code goes to 4.  I'm not
> an expert on this stuff, so I don't know what the UTF8 spec actually
> says.  But I do think you are fixing the code at the wrong level.

Surely there are UTF-8 codes that are at least 3 bytes.  I have a
_vague_ recollection that you have to keep escaping and escaping to get
up to like 4 bytes for some asian code points?

Chris


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