Unicode problems on IRC - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Unicode problems on IRC
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Msg-id 42515B39.5070804@familyhealth.com.au
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Hey guys,

The 'Unicode characters above 0x10000' issue keeps rearing its ugly head 
in the IRC channel.  I propose that it be fixed, even backported...

This is John Hansen's most recent patch to fix it:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2004-11/msg00259.php

And from what I can tell it was committed, then reverted because it 
wasn't a "bug".  It was going to go in for 8.1.

We on the channel are starting to think that it is in fact a bug.  There 
are are people with legitimately utf-8 encoded XML documents that they 
cannot store in PostgreSQL.  Apparently in the distant past, Unicode was 
limited to 0x10000, but then was extended.

Perhaps we can reopen this case...

Chris


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