Questionable description about character sets

From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Questionable description about character sets
Date: 2026-02-11 09:58:47
Message-ID: 20260211.185847.1679085676298121526.ishii@postgresql.org
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"23.3.1. Supported Character Sets
Table 23.3 shows the character sets available for use in PostgreSQL."

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/multibyte.html#MULTIBYTE-CHARSET-SUPPORTED

But the table actually shows encodings (more precisely, "character
encoding scheme") (BIG5...EUC_JP... UTF8). I think we need one more
column for "character sets" (more precisely, "coded character sets").

Encoding Character set ...
BIG5 Big5-2003
:
EUC_JP ASCII, JIS X 0208, JIS X 0212, JIS X 0201
:
UTF8 Unicode

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