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
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