Re: Implementing full UTF-8 support (aka supporting 0x00) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 3 August 2016 at 20:13, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa <aht@8kdata.com> wrote:
> Yet they are accepted by Postgres
> (like if Postgres would support Modified UTF-8 intentionally). The caracter
> in psql does not render as a nul but as this symbol: "삀".

Not accepted as valid utf8:

# select E'\xc0\x80';
ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xc0 0x80

You would need a "modified utf8" encoding, I think.

Geoff