Re: UTF-8 question.

From: Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)myrealbox(dot)com>
To: "Richard Connamacher" <rich(dot)n1(at)indieimage(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: UTF-8 question.
Date: 2004-09-17 01:19:40
Message-ID: A61647D8-0847-11D9-8418-000A95C88220@myrealbox.com
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On Sep 17, 2004, at 9:39 AM, Richard Connamacher wrote:

> UTF-8 is the 8-bit version of Unicode.
> The multibyte version of Unicode is UTF-16.

UTF-8 encodes characters with varying numbers of bytes, not just 1 byte
per character. IIRC, it's anywhere from 1 to 5 bytes, actually.
PostgreSQL uses UTF-8.

If you can, upgrade. 7.1 is nearing prehistoric. :)

Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com

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