| From: | Kenneth Marshall <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, PostgreSQL-Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Extensions, patch v20 (bitrot fixes) |
| Date: | 2010-12-20 19:53:51 |
| Message-ID: | 20101220195351.GB10252@aart.is.rice.edu |
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On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 02:10:39PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 08:01:42PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> >> I think you mean Unicode is not a superset of all character sets. I've
> >> heard this before but never found what's missing. [citation needed]?
>
> > Windows-1252, ISO-2022-JP-2 and EUC-TW are such encodings.
>
> [citation needed]? Exactly what characters are missing, and why would
> the Unicode people have chosen to leave them out? It's not like they've
> not heard of those encodings, I'm sure.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
Here is an interesting description of some of the gotchas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252
Regards,
Ken
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