Re: Encoding Issue with UNICODE - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John DeSoi
Subject Re: Encoding Issue with UNICODE
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Msg-id 6EBED09E-AB7B-11D9-807C-000A95B03262@pgedit.com
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In response to Re: Encoding Issue with UNICODE  (fritz-bayer@web.de (Fritz Bayer))
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On Apr 12, 2005, at 6:39 AM, Fritz Bayer wrote:

> But in which encoding? I guess utf8 or utf16...
>
> But why doesn that fail only for äüö? Shouldn't any other letter
> encoded in utf16 also fail?
>
> I mean unicode itself is 16 bit long. So "münchen" should expand to 14
> characters. But only ü expands to two characters.


PostgreSQL only supports utf-8. There has been discussion of using a
label other than "unicode" to make this more apparent.


John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL


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