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	  

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