| From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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| To: | Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, PostgreSQL-Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Extensions, patch v20 (bitrot fixes) |
| Date: | 2010-12-20 19:01:42 |
| Message-ID: | 20101220190141.GA13071@svana.org |
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On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 09:03:56AM +0900, Itagaki Takahiro wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 01:34, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> I agree that "the default encoding is UTF-8", but it should be
> >> configurable by the 'encoding' parameter in control files.
> >
> > Why is it necessary to have such a parameter at all?
>
> UTF-8 is not a superset of all encodings.
I think you mean Unicode is not a superset of all character sets. I've
heard this before but never found what's missing. [citation needed]?
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism,
> when hate for people other than your own comes first.
> - Charles de Gaulle
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