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Re: UTF8 or Unicode

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, dpage@vale-housing.co.uk, oliver@opencloud.com, zakkr@zf.jcu.cz, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-02-25T10:01:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Am Freitag, 25. Februar 2005 05:51 schrieb Bruce Momjian:
> so I see what he is saying.  We are not consistent in favoring the
> official names vs. the common names.
>
> I will work on a patch that people can review and test.

I think this is what we should do:

UNICODE => UTF8
ALT => WIN866
WIN => WIN1251
TCVN => WIN1258

That should clear it up.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/