Re: UTF8 or Unicode

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>, Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>, List pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: UTF8 or Unicode
Date: 2005-02-19 03:35:07
Message-ID: 200502190335.j1J3Z7S10285@candle.pha.pa.us
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Dave Page wrote:
> Karel Zak wrote:
>
> >> Yes, I think we should fix it and remove UNICODE and WIN encoding names
> >> from PG code.
> >
> > The JDBC driver asks for a UNICODE client encoding before it knows the
> > server version it is talking to. How do you avoid breaking this?
>
> So does pgAdmin.

I think we just need to _favor_ UTF8. The question is where are we
favoring Unicode rather than UTF8?

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