> Tatsuo Ishii <is...@postgresql.org> writes: >>> MULE is completely evil. >>> It has N different encodings for the same character, > >> What's wrong with that? It aims that in the first place. > > It greatly complicates comparisons --- at least, if you'd like to preserve > the principle that strings that appear the same are equal.
You don't need to consider it because there's no place in PostgreSQL where a MULE encoded text consists of multiple encodings as far as I know. BTW, same characters are assigned different code points are pretty common in many character sets (Unicode, for example). -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers