Re: UTF8 or Unicode

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)oryx(dot)com>, List pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: UTF8 or Unicode
Date: 2005-02-15 13:33:29
Message-ID: 200502151433.30318.peter_e@gmx.net
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Am Dienstag, 15. Februar 2005 10:22 schrieb Karel Zak:
> in PG: unicode = utf8 = utf-8
>
> Our internal routines in src/backend/utils/mb/encnames.c accept all
> synonyms. The "official" internal PG name for UTF-8 is "UNICODE" :-(

I think in the SQL standard the official name is UTF8. If someone wants to
verify that this is the case and is exactly the encoding we offer (perhaps
modulo the 0x10000 issue), then it might make sense to change the canonical
form to UTF8.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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