Re: UTF8 or Unicode

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I think this is what we should do:
>> 
>> UNICODE => UTF8
>> ALT => WIN866
>> WIN => WIN1251
>> TCVN => WIN1258

> OK, but what about latin1?

I think LATIN1 is fine as-is.  It's a reasonably popular name for the
character set, and despite Tatsuo's complaint, it's not going to confuse
anyone in practice --- the 7-bit version of that standard has no traction.
The reason UNICODE is a bad name for UTF8 is exactly that there are
multiple physical encodings of Unicode that are in common use.
        regards, tom lane