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Re: UTF8 or Unicode

Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>

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From: Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@oryx.com>, List pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2005-02-18T09:28:00Z
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On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 14:33 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 15. Februar 2005 10:22 schrieb Karel Zak:
> > in PG: unicode = utf8 = utf-8
> >
> > Our internal routines in src/backend/utils/mb/encnames.c accept all
> > synonyms. The "official" internal PG name for UTF-8 is "UNICODE" :-(
> 
> I think in the SQL standard the official name is UTF8.  If someone wants to 
> verify that this is the case and is exactly the encoding we offer (perhaps 
> modulo the 0x10000 issue), then it might make sense to change the canonical 
> form to UTF8.

Yes, I think we should fix it and remove UNICODE and WIN encoding names
from PG code.

	Karel

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Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>