| From: | John DeSoi <desoi(at)pgedit(dot)com> |
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| To: | Mont Rothstein <mont_rothstein(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Multiple languages in one database |
| Date: | 2005-03-20 02:49:10 |
| Message-ID: | A28DED86-98EA-11D9-B97F-000A95B03262@pgedit.com |
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On Mar 18, 2005, at 5:54 PM, Mont Rothstein wrote:
> I need to store multiple languages in one database (English, Spanish,
> Chinese, Korean, ???). At first I thought I would just us Unicode,
> but then I realized that it is only UTF-8 and it is my understanding
> that UTF-8 is insufficient for Chinese and Korean. I state this
> because I am starting to think that it is possible this assumption is
> incorrect.
Your assumption is incorrect. The idea of unicode is to have a single
character set for representing all languages. UTF-8 is a representation
of unicode and is designed to encode any unicode character.
See http://www.unicode.org/ and
http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html.
John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
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