Re: Surrogate pairs in UTF-8

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 08:16:47AM -0600, Dave Rosckes wrote:
> I have written a test program using postgres that creates a string with a
> surrogate pair.  I then insert that string into a varchar property in a
> table.
>
> I then execute a select statement to pull the string out.  But when I
> evaluate the string the lead char of the pair is correct, but the following
> pair value is mangled.  I run this exact same code using DB2 and it works
> just fine.
>
> Is this a postgres limitation, or is there a specific way surrogate pairs
> need to be handled?

Sounds odd. Can you provide actual queries showing the problem (and
server version).

Have a nice day,
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