Re: [suggestion]support UNICODE host variables in ECPG

"Nagaura, Ryohei" <nagaura.ryohei@jp.fujitsu.com> writes:
> Tsunakawa-san
>> * What's the benefit of supporting UTF16 in host variables?

> 1) As byte per character is constant in UTF16 encoding, it can process strings more efficiently than other encodings.

I don't think I buy that argument; it falls down as soon as you consider
characters above U+FFFF.  I worry that by supporting UTF16, we'd basically
be encouraging users to write code that fails on such characters, which
doesn't seem like good project policy.

            regards, tom lane