Re: is this a bug or I am blind? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: is this a bug or I am blind?
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Msg-id 87k6e3b0d6.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
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In response to Re: is this a bug or I am blind?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:

> Greg Stark wrote:
> > Using iso-8859-1 to encode "é" as a single byte versus using UTF8
> > which would take two bytes to encode it is an issue of using two
> > *different* encodings.
>
> But that's not what we are discussing.

The poster to which Tom was responding was bringing it up as an issue.
I was explaining how it was different.

> > There is a separate issue that some characters could theoretically
> > have multiple representations even within the same encoding.
>
> That is what we are discussing.

Well the original discussion about the hungarian strings was about yet a third
case entirely. Two different sequences of characters that have the same
semantic significance.

--
greg

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