Re: Extensions, patch v20 (bitrot fixes)

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 09:03:56AM +0900, Itagaki Takahiro wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 01:34, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> I agree that "the default encoding is UTF-8", but it should be
> >> configurable by the 'encoding' parameter in control files.
> >
> > Why is it necessary to have such a parameter at all?
> 
> UTF-8 is not a superset of all encodings.

I think you mean Unicode is not a superset of all character sets. I've
heard this before but never found what's missing. [citation needed]?

Have a nice day,
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