Karel Zak kirjutas T, 21.10.2003 kell 10:50:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:58:00PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> > (Note that I say Unicode a lot here because those people do a lot of
> > research and standardization in this area, which is available for free,
> > but this does not constrain the result to work only with the Unicode
> > character set.)
>
> Why cannot do PostgreSQL as 100% pure Unicode system? We can do
> conversion from/to others encodings as client/server communication
> extension, but internaly in BE we can use only pure Unicode data. I
> think a lot of things will more simple...
I've heard that some far-east languages have had some issues with 16-bit
UNICODE, but the 32-bit should have fixed it.
I would also support a move to UNICODE (store as SCSU, process as 16 or
32 bit wchars, i/o as UTF-8) for NCHAR/NVARCHAR/NTEXT and pure 7-bit
byte-value ordered ASCII for CHAR/VARCHAR/TEXT.
But this would surely have some issues with backward compatibility.
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Hannu