Re: MSSQL to PostgreSQL : Encoding problem

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Brandon Aiken <BAiken(at)winemantech(dot)com>
Cc: thewild(at)free(dot)fr, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: MSSQL to PostgreSQL : Encoding problem
Date: 2006-11-22 20:42:47
Message-ID: 20061122204247.GC21605@svana.org
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On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 01:55:55PM -0500, Brandon Aiken wrote:
> Gee, didn't Unicode just so simplify this codepage mess? Remember
> when it was just ASCII, EBCDIC, ANSI, and localized codepages?

I think that's one reason why Unix has standardised on UTF-8 rather
than one of the other Unicode variants. For transmission between
systems it's the easiest to get right...

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.

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