On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 11:08:35PM -0400, Chapman Flack wrote:
> On 05/11/20 22:48, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:07:23PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> >>> Allow Unicode escapes, e.g., E'\u####', U&'\####', to represent any
> >>> character available in the database encoding, even when the database
> >>> encoding is not UTF-8 (Tom Lane)
> >>
> >> How about "to be used for" instead of "to represent"? "Represent" kind
> >> of sounds like we're using these on output, which we aren't.
> >
> > Uh, I think "used for" is worse though, since we are not using it. I
> > don't get the "output" feel of the word at all.
>
> 'specify' ?
I like that word if Tom prefers it.
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