> I wanted to allow WIN1250 as a server-side encoding, in light of the
> Windows port. Now I wonder why there are client-only encodings at all.
> Without knowing details, it seems the client-only encodings are all
> "Windows world" encodings. So was the original reason not to allow
> these as server encodings that the server doesn't run on Windows? If
> so, should the category client-only encodings be abolished?
I think it's not just possible for some multi-byte encodings such as
SJIS(Shift-JIS) and Big5. Currently PostgreSQL will not accept them
because of they include special ASCII characters such as back slashes.
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Tatsuo Ishii