Re: What's a good default encoding? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John DeSoi
Subject Re: What's a good default encoding?
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Msg-id 86398DB5-BA5E-4102-996E-916DF0167CFC@pgedit.com
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In response to What's a good default encoding?  (CSN <cool_screen_name90001@yahoo.com>)
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On Mar 14, 2006, at 3:10 PM, CSN wrote:

> If you're going to be putting emdashes, letters with
> lines and circles above them, and similar stuff that's
> mostly European and American in a database, what's a
> good default encoding to use - UTF-8?


Yes, UTF-8 is good because it can represent every possible character
and is efficient with respect to latin character sets.




John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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