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' ?
-Chap