Re: encoding names

Tatsuo Ishii writes:

> > Barry Lind writes:
> >
> > > This patch will break the JDBC driver.  The jdbc driver relies on the
> > > value returned by getdatabaseencoding() to determine the server encoding
> > > so that it can convert to unicode.
> >
> > Then the driver needs to be changed to accept the new encoding names as
> > well.  (Or couldn't we convert it to Unicode in the server?)
>
> This will break the backward compatibility.

How so?

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