> > Right. Also we perhaps should call LATIN1 or ISO-8859-1 more precisely > > way since ISO-8859-1 can be encoded in either 7 bit or 8 bit(we use > > this). I don't know what it is called though. > > I don't think that calling 8-bit ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 can confuse > anybody, but UCS-2 (ISO-10646-1), UTF-8 and UTF-16 are all widely used.
I just pointed out that ISO-8859-1 is *not* an encoding, but a character set. > UTF-8 seems to be the most popular, but even XML standard requires all > compliant implementations to deal with at least both UTF-8 and UTF-16. I don't think PostgreSQL is going to natively support UTF-16. -- Tatsuo Ishii ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
