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From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Pre-proposal: unicode normalized text
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In response to Re: Pre-proposal: unicode normalized text  (Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>)
Responses Re: Pre-proposal: unicode normalized text  (Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>)
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On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 1:27 PM Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote:
> A UTEXT type would be helpful for specifying that the text must be
> Unicode (in which transform?) even if the character data encoding for
> the database is not UTF-8.

That's actually pretty thorny ... because right now client_encoding
specifies the encoding to be used for all data sent to the client. So
would we convert the data from UTF8 to the selected client encoding?
Or what?

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Robert Haas
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