On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 20:29, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2010, at 9:32 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> latin=# SELECT * FROM perlgets('“hello”');
> length │ is_utf8
> ────────┼─────────
> 11 │ f
>
> (Yes I used Latin-1 curly quotes in that last example).
Erm, latin1 does not have curly quotes, Windows-1252 does. Those are
utf8 quotes AFAICT so 11 is actually right (thats 3 bytes per quote so
that where 11 comes from). If latin1 did have quotes and you used
them you would have gotten the same answer as latin1 is a single byte
encoding. :) I think your terminal tripping you up here.
Postgres also gives the same length:
latin1=# select length('“hello”');length
-------- 11
(1 row)