Re: BUG #1721: mutiple bytes character string comaprison

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Chii-Tung Liu" <cdliou@mail.cyut.edu.tw> writes:
> > PostgreSQL version: 8.0.3
> > Operating system:   Windows XP SP2
>
> > When compare two UTF-8 encoded string that contains Chinese words, the
> > result is always TRUE
>
> Sorry, but UTF-8 encoding doesn't work properly on Windows (yet).
> Use some other database encoding.
>

Shouldn't we forbid its creation then?  At least a strongly worded
warning?  We see these complaints too often.

Kris Jurka