From: | Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
Cc: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group |
Date: | 2002-12-10 00:02:00 |
Message-ID: | 3DF52EF8.4080907@postgresql.org |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
<snip>
> Press release:
>
> - 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...)
>
> That is just plain wrong. Support for various character sets is years
> old.
Sure is. Notice it didn't say "just added" or "added with this release"?
It just says "supports". It's to highlight the fact that it can be used
for non-English character sets. Sure, a whole bunch of people know
this, but the main target of the press release is people new to
PostgreSQL that don't.
:-)
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
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