Re: 4.1.2.3. String Constants with Unicode Escapes

čt 27. 8. 2026 v 16:48 odesílatel David G. Johnston <
david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> napsal:

> On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 10:20 AM PG Doc comments form <
> noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
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>> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
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>> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/sql-syntax-lexical.html
>> Description:
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>> >> The following less trivial example writes the Russian word “slon”
>> (elephant) in Cyrillic letters:
>>
>> Why are you tagging the word “elephant” with a country? This word is
>> written
>> in Cyrillic characters, which are used in many countries:
>>
>> Why do you consider it Russian?
>>
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> The word "slon" is Russian. It seems unhelpful for the example to specify
> what other languages may also have incorporated the word "slon" into their
> vocabulary. To not specify at least one language as containing "slon" also
> seems unhelpful.
>

Slon is slavic word. Almost all slavic languages use the same word - Czech,
Polish, Slovak, ... and in this case it is not taken from Russian

Regards

Pavel

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> David J.
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