Re: A rough roadmap for internationalization fixes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: A rough roadmap for internationalization fixes
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Msg-id 8686.1069795145@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: A rough roadmap for internationalization fixes  (Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>)
Responses Re: A rough roadmap for internationalization fixes  (Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>)
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Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be> writes:
> You can encode unicode in different ways, and UTF-8 is only one
> of them.  Is there a problem with using UCS-2 (except that it
> would require more storage for ASCII)?

UCS-2 is impractical without some *extremely* wide-ranging changes in
the backend.  To take just the most obvious point, doesn't it require
allowing embedded zero bytes in text strings?
        regards, tom lane


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