Re: charset/collation in values - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dennis Bjorklund
Subject Re: charset/collation in values
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0411021308080.2015-100000@zigo.dhs.org
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In response to Re: charset/collation in values  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: charset/collation in values  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> A collation implies a character set, so you only need to store one piece of 
> information anyway.

No, a collation implies a character repertoire like UCS (unicode), it can
apply to several character sets like UTF8 and UTF16.

One can enumerate all combinations if one want to, as suggested
previously.

-- 
/Dennis Björklund



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