On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 11:08:35PM -0400, Chapman Flack wrote:
> On 05/11/20 22:48, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:07:23PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes:
> >>>   Allow Unicode escapes, e.g., E'\u####', U&'\####', to represent any
> >>>   character available in the database encoding, even when the database
> >>>   encoding is not UTF-8 (Tom Lane)
> >>
> >> How about "to be used for" instead of "to represent"?  "Represent" kind
> >> of sounds like we're using these on output, which we aren't.
> > 
> > Uh, I think "used for" is worse though, since we are not using it.  I
> > don't get the "output" feel of the word at all.
> 
> 'specify' ?

I like that word if Tom prefers it.

-- 
  Bruce Momjian  <br...@momjian.us>        https://momjian.us
  EnterpriseDB                             https://enterprisedb.com

+ As you are, so once was I.  As I am, so you will be. +
+                      Ancient Roman grave inscription +


Reply via email to