Re:     H - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re:     H
Date
Msg-id 5819.1160013056@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re:     H  ("stevegy" <stevegy@126.com>)
Responses Re:     &  ("stevegy" <stevegy@126.com>)
List pgsql-general
"stevegy" <stevegy@126.com> writes:
> I really want to know why the server side encoding for GB18030 is not supported?

Because it overlaps the ASCII character set, ie, it has multibyte
characters in which some of the bytes don't have the high bit set.
That creates too many parsing risks for us to be willing to deal
with it inside the backend.

            regards, tom lane

pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: "stevegy"
Date:
Subject: Re:     H
Next
From: Matthias.Pitzl@izb.de
Date:
Subject: Re: Help required