Questionable description about character sets
Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
To: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2026-02-11T09:58:47Z
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"23.3.1. Supported Character Sets Table 23.3 shows the character sets available for use in PostgreSQL." https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/multibyte.html#MULTIBYTE-CHARSET-SUPPORTED But the table actually shows encodings (more precisely, "character encoding scheme") (BIG5...EUC_JP... UTF8). I think we need one more column for "character sets" (more precisely, "coded character sets"). Encoding Character set ... BIG5 Big5-2003 : EUC_JP ASCII, JIS X 0208, JIS X 0212, JIS X 0201 : UTF8 Unicode Best regards, -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS K.K. English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en/ Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp