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Re: UTF8 or Unicode

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Cc: Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com>, Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>, List pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2005-02-19T03:35:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Dave Page 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?
> 
> So does pgAdmin.

I think we just need to _favor_ UTF8.  The question is where are we
favoring Unicode rather than UTF8?

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