Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

From: Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
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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