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

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
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 18:11:56
Message-ID: 31570.1445883116@sss.pgh.pa.us
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fortin(dot)christian(at)videotron(dot)ca writes:
> Is PostgreSQL support UNICODE UTF-32 characters ?

There's no particular intention of supporting the UTF32 representation
inside the database. We do support UTF8 representation of the entire
Unicode character set. You can transcode to and from UTF32 easily enough,
if you have a client application that prefers to work in that
representation.

regards, tom lane

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