On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 08:01:42PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 09:03:56AM +0900, Itagaki Takahiro wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 01:34, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > >> I agree that "the default encoding is UTF-8", but it should be > > >> configurable by the 'encoding' parameter in control files. > > > > > > Why is it necessary to have such a parameter at all? > > > > UTF-8 is not a superset of all encodings. > > I think you mean Unicode is not a superset of all character sets. I've > heard this before but never found what's missing. [citation needed]?
Windows-1252, ISO-2022-JP-2 and EUC-TW are such encodings. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
