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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: Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com>
Cc: List pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2005-02-18T11:53:02Z
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On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 00:27 +1300, Oliver Jowett wrote:
> Karel Zak wrote:
> 
> > Yes, I think we should fix it and remove UNICODE and WIN encoding names
> > from PG code.
> 
> The JDBC driver asks for a UNICODE client encoding before it knows the 
> server version it is talking to. How do you avoid breaking this?

Fix JDBC driver as soon as possible.

Add to 8.1 release notes: encoding names 'UNICODE' and 'WIN' are
deprecated and it will removed in next release. Please, use correct
names "UTF-8" and "WIN1215".

8.2: remove it.

OK?

	Karel

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Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>