Re: Proposal: CREATE CONVERSION - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Proposal: CREATE CONVERSION
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0207091850230.1247-100000@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: Proposal: CREATE CONVERSION  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>)
Responses Re: Proposal: CREATE CONVERSION  (Tim Allen <tim@proximity.com.au>)
Re: Proposal: CREATE CONVERSION  (Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>)
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Hannu Krosing writes:

> Can't we do all collating in unicode and convert charsets A and B to and
> >from it ?
>
> I would even reccommend going a step further and storing all 'national'
> character sets in unicode.

Sure.  However, Tatsuo maintains that the customary Japanese character
sets don't map very well with Unicode.  Personally, I believe that this is
an issue that should be fixed, not avoided, but I don't understand the
issues well enough.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net



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