On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 01:34, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I agree that "the default encoding is UTF-8", but it should be
>> configurable by the 'encoding' parameter in control files.
>
> Why is it necessary to have such a parameter at all?
UTF-8 is not a superset of all encodings.
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Itagaki Takahiro