Re: Unicode support

On Tuesday 14 April 2009 19:26:41 Tom Lane wrote:
> Another question is "what is the purpose of a database"?  To me it would
> be quite the wrong thing for the DB to not store what is presented, as
> long as it's considered legal.  Normalization of legal variant forms
> seems pretty questionable.  So I'm with the camp that says this is the
> application's responsibility.

I think automatically normalizing or otherwise fiddling with Unicode strings 
with combining characters is not acceptable.  But the point is that we should 
process equivalent forms in a consistent way.