Re: UTF8 national character data type support WIP patch and list of open issues.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: kleptog(at)svana(dot)org, maumau307(at)gmail(dot)com, laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at, robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com, peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net, arul(at)fast(dot)au(dot)fujitsu(dot)com, stark(at)mit(dot)edu, Maksym(dot)Boguk(at)au(dot)fujitsu(dot)com, hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: UTF8 national character data type support WIP patch and list of open issues.
Date: 2013-11-14 00:28:08
Message-ID: 29319.1384388888@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
>> MULE is completely evil.
>> It has N different encodings for the same character,

> What's wrong with that? It aims that in the first place.

It greatly complicates comparisons --- at least, if you'd like to preserve
the principle that strings that appear the same are equal.

regards, tom lane

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