Re: UTF8 or Unicode

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk, oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com, zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: UTF8 or Unicode
Date: 2005-02-25 15:26:05
Message-ID: 200502251526.j1PFQ5f16781@candle.pha.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Freitag, 25. Februar 2005 05:51 schrieb Bruce Momjian:
> > 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.
>
> I think this is what we should do:
>
> UNICODE => UTF8
> ALT => WIN866
> WIN => WIN1251
> TCVN => WIN1258

OK, but what about latin1?

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