Re: [rfc] unicode escapes for extended strings

On 4/17/09, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> > ISTM that one of the uses of this is to say "store the character
> > that corresponds to this Unicode code point in whatever the database
> > encoding is"
>
> I would think you're right. As long as the given character is in the
> user's character set, we should allow it. Presumably we've already
> confirmed that they have an encoding scheme which allows them to store
> everything in their character set.

It is probably good idea, but currently I just followed what the U&
strings do.

I can change my patch to do it, but it is probably more urgent in U&
case to decide whether they should work in other encodings too.

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marko