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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: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-02-25T16:32:21Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Am Freitag, 25. Februar 2005 16:26 schrieb Bruce Momjian:
> OK, but what about latin1?

The following character set names are specified in the SQL standard and 
therefore somewhat non-negotiable:

SQL_CHARACTER
GRAPHIC_IRV
LATIN1
ISO8BIT
UTF16
UTF8
UCS2
SQL_TEXT
SQL_IDENTIFIER

So we have to use LATIN1, even though it creates an inconsistency.  We 
discussed this a while ago during the last great renaming, I think.

Btw., I think ISO8BIT is the correct name for what we call SQL_ASCII, but I 
haven't analyzed that in detail, yet.

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