Re: Unicode string literals versus the world

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: Sam Mason <sam(at)samason(dot)me(dot)uk>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Unicode string literals versus the world
Date: 2009-04-15 15:46:41
Message-ID: 104285E3-456B-40F8-83A1-42AA1CF25DBF@kineticode.com
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On Apr 15, 2009, at 4:45 AM, Sam Mason wrote:

> Doh, yes it does doesn't it. Sorry I searched for a bit and failed to
> find anything before. Looks as though the signal to noise ratio was
> far
> too low as I've just searched again and found a (single) reference to
> their docs describing the feature[1].

This is ugly, but not completely unpalatable:

U&'\0141ód\017A is a city in Poland' U&'c:\\temp' U&'@+01D11E'
UESCAPE '@'

Wouldn't we just then say that U&'' strings are always standard-
conforming?

Best,

David

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