Re: UTF8 or Unicode

Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> At 2005-02-14 21:14:54 -0500, pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us wrote:
> >
> > Should our multi-byte encoding be referred to as UTF8 or Unicode?
>
> The *encoding* should certainly be referred to as UTF-8. Unicode is a
> character set, not an encoding; Unicode characters may be encoded with
> UTF-8, among other things.
>
> (One might think of a charset as being a set of integers representing
> characters, and an encoding as specifying how those integers may be
> converted to bytes.)
>
> > I know UTF8 is a type of unicode but do we need to rename anything
> > from Unicode to UTF8?
>
> I don't know. I'll go through the documentation to see if I can find
> anything that needs changing.

I looked at encoding.sgml and that mentions Unicode, and then UTF8 as an
acronym. I am wondering if we need to make UTF8 first and Unicode
second. Does initdb accept UTF8 as an encoding?

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