Re: evil characters #bfef cause dump failure

Hi Peter,

I know that the unicode standards are far from perfect, but I'm wondering 
why you consider it a failure.

Is it technical, or just an acceptance thing?

From my personal perspective, I never had any interest in such things as 
encodings or internationlization until I started working in Japan, then I 
realized what a nightmare it is. I expect you can imagine, but most people 
(like me a year ago) couldn't. If everyone was already using unicode, I 
don't think we'd have anything to worry about.

regards
Iain
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Eisentraut" 
To: "Iain" 
Cc: "Tom Lane" ; "pgsql-admin list" 

Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] evil characters #bfef cause dump failure


> Am Dienstag, 16. November 2004 09:45 schrieb Iain:
>> That's seems pretty reasonable, though I think that standardizing on
>> unicode (and I guess that means UTF-8) is really the way to go. It was
>> designed as the universal standard after all.
>
> It may have been designed that way, but it is a failure in practice.
>
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> Peter Eisentraut
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