>> Agreed that the so-said "state" level requirement would be a
>> non-starter.
>
> Or maybe support for using these as server encodings could be
> removed, keeping the client_encoding part intact?
GB18030 is already client encoding only, and cannot be used as a
server encoding. The only way to save GB18030 data into database is,
converting GB18030 to UTF-8 (which can be done automatically).
Best regards,
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Tatsuo Ishii
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