Re: [HACKERS] UTF-32 support in PostgreSQL ?

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: fortin(dot)christian(at)videotron(dot)ca
Cc: pgsql-translators(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] UTF-32 support in PostgreSQL ?
Date: 2015-10-26 18:09:14
Message-ID: 20151026180914.GG620@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2015-10-23 23:29:53 -0400, fortin(dot)christian(at)videotron(dot)ca wrote:
> Is PostgreSQL support UNICODE UTF-32 characters ?

No.

> If not, I think it's a must to be internationnal.

Why? I think Unicode support is a must, but I don't see why utf-32
support is. Postgres supports UTF-8, and I haven't heard any convincing
arguments why that's not sufficient.

Andres

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