Re: charset/collation in values

From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net
Cc: db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: charset/collation in values
Date: 2004-11-03 06:10:17
Message-ID: 20041103.151017.45517473.t-ishii@sra.co.jp
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> Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
> > The named entity that is called a collation works for a character
> > repertoire. It would need to handle different charsets for that
> > repertoire of course. So there would be one collation called say
> > ucs_sv and not utf8_sv, utf16_sv, utf32_sv.
>
> Again, theoretically, this might work, but I doubt that this is a
> practical implementation. Moreover, since Unicode is more or less the
> only chararacter repertoire that have more than one encoding in use,
> and neither UTF-16 nor UTF-32 can be used inside the PostgreSQL server
> (embedded zero bytes etc.), this is really a nonissue.

I agree with Peter.
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Tatsuo Ishii

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