> Why cannot do PostgreSQL as 100% pure Unicode system? We can do
> conversion from/to others encodings as client/server communication
> extension, but internaly in BE we can use only pure Unicode data. I
> think a lot of things will more simple...
Please don't do that. There's a known issue of round trip conversion
between Unicode and other encodings and still the existing encodings
are very important for many users.
Also I think DBMS should not rely on particular encoding
implementation.
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Tatsuo Ishii