Re: Unicode support

Greg Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> wrote: 
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>> SELECT U&'\00E9', char_length(U&'\00E9');
>>  ?column? | char_length
>> ----------+-------------
>>  é        |           1
>> (1 row)
>>
>> SELECT U&'\0065\0301', char_length(U&'\0065\0301');
>>  ?column? | char_length
>> ----------+-------------
>>  é        |           2
>> (1 row)
> 
> What's really at issue is "what is a string?". That is, it a
> sequence of characters or a sequence of code points.
Doesn't the SQL standard refer to them as "character string literals"?
The function is called character_length or char_length.
I'm curious -- can every multi-code-point character be normalized to a
single-code-point character?
-Kevin