Re: UTF8 or Unicode

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > I think we just need to _favor_ UTF8.
>
> I agree.
>
> > The question is where are we
> > favoring Unicode rather than UTF8?
>
> It's the canonical name of the encoding, both in the code and the docs.
>
> regression=# create database e encoding 'utf-8';
> CREATE DATABASE
> regression=# \l
> List of databases
> Name | Owner | Encoding
> ------------+----------+-----------
> e | postgres | UNICODE
> regression | postgres | SQL_ASCII
> template0 | postgres | SQL_ASCII
> template1 | postgres | SQL_ASCII
> (5 rows)
>
> As soon as we decide whether the canonical name is "UTF8" or "UTF-8"
> ;-) we can fix it.

I checked and it looks like "UTF-8" is the correct usage:

http://www.unicode.org/glossary/

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