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Re: MSSQL to PostgreSQL : Encoding problem

Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>

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From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
To: Brandon Aiken <BAiken@winemantech.com>
Cc: thewild@free.fr, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-11-22T20:42:47Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 01:55:55PM -0500, Brandon Aiken wrote:
> Gee, didn't Unicode just so simplify this codepage mess?  Remember
> when it was just ASCII, EBCDIC, ANSI, and localized codepages?

I think that's one reason why Unix has standardised on UTF-8 rather
than one of the other Unicode variants. For transmission between
systems it's the easiest to get right...

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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