Re: Unicode escapes with any backend encoding

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 7:55 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 4:25 AM Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net> wrote:
> >> On 1/14/20 10:10 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>> to me that this error is just useless pedantry.  As long as the DB
> >>> encoding can represent the desired character, it should be transparent
> >>> to users.
>
> >> That's my position too.
>
> > and mine.
>
> I'm confused --- yesterday you seemed to be against this idea.
> Have you changed your mind?
>
> I'll gladly go change the patch if people are on board with this.
>
>

Perhaps I expressed myself badly. What I meant was that we should keep
the json and text escape rules in sync, as they are now. Since we're
changing the text rules to allow resolvable non-ascii unicode escapes
in non-utf8 locales, we should do the same for json.

cheers

andrew


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