| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Subject: | Re: Unicode string literals versus the world |
| Date: | 2009-04-14 10:56:58 |
| Message-ID: | 200904141356.58553.peter_e@gmx.net |
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On Saturday 11 April 2009 21:50:29 Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 4/11/09 11:47 AM, Marko Kreen wrote:
> > On 4/11/09, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> It gets worse though: I have seldom seen such a badly designed piece
> >> of syntax as the Unicode string syntax --- see
> >>
> >> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/sql-syntax-lexical.html#
> >>SQL-SYNTAX-STRINGS-UESCAPE
>
> WTF? Whose feature is this? What's the use case?
The use case is approximately the same as &#xxxx; in HTML: entering Unicode
characters that your screen or keyboard cannot easily produce. It's a
desperately needed feature for me.
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