Character set encodings in PG 7.3

From: Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: PostgreSQL Advocacy Mailing List <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
Subject: Character set encodings in PG 7.3
Date: 2002-11-26 11:47:35
Message-ID: 3DE35F57.EA49F262@postgresql.org
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Hi everyone,

Was just looking at the listing on the development docs page for the
number of different multi-byte character set encodings that 7.3 supports
out-of-the-box. It shows 28 different encodings:

http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/multibyte.html#AEN21737

However, some of them are specific to one language (i.e. EUC_JP ->
Japanese EUC), whereas some cater to many languages (i.e. the LATIN
encodings).

Is there a good way we can include something in the 7.3 Press Release
that reflects the ability of 7.3 to store data in these languages.

Was thinking perhaps something like:

- Supports data in many international characters sets (UNICODE, EUC_JP,
EUC_CN, EUC_KR, JOHAB, EUC_TW, ISO 8859-1 ECMA-94, KOI8, WIN1256, etc...

Am hoping to have something that will catch the attention of people that
do stuff with non-English speaking countries. It's a large and growing
um... market and it's probably a good move to try and catch their
attention (further).

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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