Re: UTF8 or Unicode

Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> I do not object the changing UNICODE->UTF-8, but all these discussions
> sound a little bit funny to me.
>
> If you want to blame UNICODE, you should blame LATIN1 etc. as
> well. LATIN1(ISO-8859-1) is actually a character set name, not an
> encoding name. ISO-8859-1 can be encoded in 8-bit single byte
> stream. But it can be encoded in 7-bit too. So when we refer to
> LATIN1(ISO-8859-1), it's not clear if it's encoded in 7/8-bit.

Wow, Tatsuo has a point here. Looking at encnames.c, I see:

"UNICODE", PG_UTF8

but also:

"WIN", PG_WIN1251
"LATIN1", PG_LATIN1

and I see conversions for those:

"iso88591", PG_LATIN1
"win", PG_WIN1251

so I see what he is saying. We are not consistent in favoring the
official names vs. the common names.

I will work on a patch that people can review and test.

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