Re: What's a good default encoding?

From: John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com>
To: CSN <cool_screen_name90001(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What's a good default encoding?
Date: 2006-03-15 03:00:18
Message-ID: 86398DB5-BA5E-4102-996E-916DF0167CFC@pgedit.com
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On Mar 14, 2006, at 3:10 PM, CSN wrote:

> If you're going to be putting emdashes, letters with
> lines and circles above them, and similar stuff that's
> mostly European and American in a database, what's a
> good default encoding to use - UTF-8?

Yes, UTF-8 is good because it can represent every possible character
and is efficient with respect to latin character sets.

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL

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