Re: Extensions, patch v18 (merge against master, bitrot-only-fixes)

Nicolas Barbier <nicolas.barbier@gmail.com>

From: Nicolas Barbier <nicolas.barbier@gmail.com>

To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, PostgreSQL-Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-12-16T14:11:51Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

2010/12/16 Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>:

> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr> wrote:
>
>> Please note that the SQL scripts seem to be encoded in latin9.
>
> Seems like an odd choice.  Why not UTF-8?

Latin 9 = ISO 8859-15 = a more modern version of Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1),
which includes the € symbol for example. I.e., it's not that weird. As
long as there are no non-ASCII characters, it seems even likely that
some tools might detect a simple ASCII text file as Latin 9 by
default.

Nicolas