> > Was just wondering was support for UTF-16 Strings considered? As far as I > am aware VarChar vectors only support UTF-8. Are they something that may be > supported in the future?
This hasn't really been discussed and is a pretty large change because it would specification updates and other implementations to also understand utf-16. On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 10:57 AM Larry White <ljw1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > I don't know of any particular restriction regarding string encoding. > VarCharVector stores data as a byte array, and the encoding can be set > using the Charset class when you convert Strings to and from bytes. Since > java strings use UTF-16 internally, I would expect this to 'just work'. > > larry > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 12:46 PM Kevin Bambrick <kevinbambri...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > Was just wondering was support for UTF-16 Strings considered? As far as I > > am aware VarChar vectors only support UTF-8. Are they something that may > be > > supported in the future? > > > > Regards. > > Kevin. > > >
