On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Anybody who actually uses SHIFT_JIS as an operational encoding, rather
> than as an input/output encoding, is into pain and suffering. Personally
> I'd be quite happy to see it supported as client_encoding, but forbidden
> as a server-side encoding. That's not the case right now - so since we
> support it, we'd better guard against its quirks.
I think that *is* the case right now. pg_wchar.h sayeth:
/* followings are for client encoding only */ PG_SJIS, /* Shift
JIS
(Winindows-932) */ PG_BIG5, /* Big5 (Windows-950) */ PG_GBK,
/* GBK (Windows-936) */
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