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@sss.pgh.pa.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.