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

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: fortin(dot)christian(at)videotron(dot)ca, pgsql-translators(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] UTF-32 support in PostgreSQL ?
Date: 2015-10-26 20:51:13
Message-ID: 562E9241.1080507@dunslane.net
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On 10/23/2015 11:29 PM, fortin(dot)christian(at)videotron(dot)ca wrote:
> Is PostgreSQL support UNICODE UTF-32 characters ?
>
> If not, I think it's a must to be internationnal.
>
> To help you in this task, you could use this UTF-32 editor:
>
> https://wxmedit.github.io/downloads.html
>
> thanks.

Do you mean data stored as UTF-32, or source code in UTF-32, or
translation files as UTF-32?

For data, UTF-32 does not meet our requirements for server side encoding
(as well as being horribly inefficient space-wise).

cheers

andrew

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