Karel Zak kirjutas T, 21.10.2003 kell 10:50: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:58:00PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > (Note that I say Unicode a lot here because those people do a lot of > > research and standardization in this area, which is available for free, > > but this does not constrain the result to work only with the Unicode > > character set.) > > Why cannot do PostgreSQL as 100% pure Unicode system? We can do > conversion from/to others encodings as client/server communication > extension, but internaly in BE we can use only pure Unicode data. I > think a lot of things will more simple...
I've heard that some far-east languages have had some issues with 16-bit UNICODE, but the 32-bit should have fixed it. I would also support a move to UNICODE (store as SCSU, process as 16 or 32 bit wchars, i/o as UTF-8) for NCHAR/NVARCHAR/NTEXT and pure 7-bit byte-value ordered ASCII for CHAR/VARCHAR/TEXT. But this would surely have some issues with backward compatibility. ------------ Hannu ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])