Re: Bug in UTF8-Validation Code?

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Right -- IMHO what we should be doing is reject any input to chr() which
> is beyond plain ASCII (or maybe > 255), and create a separate function
> (unicode_char() sounds good) to get an Unicode character from a code
> point, converted to the local client_encoding per conversion_procs.

Hm, I hadn't thought of that approach, but another idea is that the
argument of chr() is *always* a unicode code point, and it converts
to the current encoding.  Do we really need a separate function?
        regards, tom lane