Re: UTF-8 question. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Michael Glaesemann
Subject Re: UTF-8 question.
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In response to UTF-8 question.  ("Richard Connamacher" <rich.n1@indieimage.com>)
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On Sep 17, 2004, at 9:39 AM, Richard Connamacher wrote:

> UTF-8 is the 8-bit version of Unicode.
> The multibyte version of Unicode is UTF-16.

UTF-8 encodes characters with varying numbers of bytes, not just 1 byte
per character. IIRC, it's anywhere from 1 to 5 bytes, actually.
PostgreSQL uses UTF-8.

If you can, upgrade. 7.1 is nearing prehistoric. :)

Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com


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