| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "- -" <crossroads0000(at)googlemail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Unicode support |
| Date: | 2009-04-14 18:19:21 |
| Message-ID: | 200904142119.23394.peter_e@gmx.net |
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On Tuesday 14 April 2009 18:49:45 Greg Stark wrote:
> What's really at issue is "what is a string?". That is, it a sequence
> of characters or a sequence of code points.
I think a sequence of codepoints would be about as silly a definition as the
antiquated notion of a string as a sequence of bytes.
> If it's the former then we
> would also have to prohibit certain strings such as U&'\0301'
> entirely. And we have to make substr() pick out the right number of
> code points, etc.
Sure enough. That all goes along with what the original poster was saying.
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