Re: A rough roadmap for internationalization fixes

From: Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: A rough roadmap for internationalization fixes
Date: 2003-11-25 12:32:27
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0311251331370.29118-100000@zigo.dhs.org
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:

> I'm tired of telling that Unicode is not that perfect. Another gottcha
> with Unicode is the UTF-8 encoding (currently we use) consumes 3
> bytes for each Kanji character, while other encodings consume only 2
> bytes. IMO 3/2 storage ratio could not be neglected for database use.

I'm aware of how utf-8 works and I was talking about the message
cataloges. It does not affect what you store in the database in any way.

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/Dennis

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