Re: Proposal: CREATE CONVERSION

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: CREATE CONVERSION
Date: 2002-07-09 22:21:23
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0207091850230.1247-100000@localhost.localdomain
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Hannu Krosing writes:

> Can't we do all collating in unicode and convert charsets A and B to and
> >from it ?
>
> I would even reccommend going a step further and storing all 'national'
> character sets in unicode.

Sure. However, Tatsuo maintains that the customary Japanese character
sets don't map very well with Unicode. Personally, I believe that this is
an issue that should be fixed, not avoided, but I don't understand the
issues well enough.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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