Re: Fixed length data types issue

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Gregory Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, andrew(at)supernews(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Fixed length data types issue
Date: 2006-09-08 18:39:03
Message-ID: 20060908183903.GY5892@alvh.no-ip.org
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mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc wrote:

> I think I've been involved in a discussion like this in the past. Was
> it mentioned in this list before? Yes the UTF-8 vs UTF-16 encoding
> means that UTF-8 applications are at a disadvantage when using the
> library. UTF-16 is considered more efficient to work with for everybody
> except ASCII users. :-)

Uh, is it? By whom? And why?

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