Thread: SQL_ASCII encoding

What exactly is the "SQL_ASCII" encoding for
databases? Is it like Unicode, UTF-8, ISO_8859_x, ...?
In what cases wouldn't you want to use it?

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CSN <cool_screen_name90001@yahoo.com> writes:
> What exactly is the "SQL_ASCII" encoding for
> databases?

We interpret it pretty much as "we don't know the encoding".  We store
what the client sends and then regurgitate it, without any encoding
conversion in either direction.  Internal operations only understand
7-bit-ASCII characters in this mode.

            regards, tom lane