Re: UTF8 national character data type support WIP patch and list of open issues.

From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
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Subject: Re: UTF8 national character data type support WIP patch and list of open issues.
Date: 2013-11-14 00:43:04
Message-ID: 20131114.094304.846975239071362840.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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> Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
>>> MULE is completely evil.
>>> It has N different encodings for the same character,
>
>> What's wrong with that? It aims that in the first place.
>
> It greatly complicates comparisons --- at least, if you'd like to preserve
> the principle that strings that appear the same are equal.

You don't need to consider it because there's no place in PostgreSQL
where a MULE encoded text consists of multiple encodings as far as I
know.

BTW, same characters are assigned different code points are pretty
common in many character sets (Unicode, for example).
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp

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