Re: converting databases form SQL_ASCII to UTF8

From: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Geoffrey Myers <lists(at)serioustechnology(dot)com>
Subject: Re: converting databases form SQL_ASCII to UTF8
Date: 2011-04-22 15:27:51
Message-ID: 201104220827.52116.adrian.klaver@gmail.com
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On Friday, April 22, 2011 8:00:08 am Geoffrey Myers wrote:

>
> What is the harm in leaving our databases SQL_ASCII encoded?

SQL_ASCII is basically no encoding. The world is slowly but surely moving to
Unicode, sooner or later you are going to hit the unknown encoding/Unicode wall.
Probably better to get it over with now.

>
> Thanks for any insights.

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Adrian Klaver
adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com

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