Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can encode unicode in different ways, and UTF-8 is only one > of them. Is there a problem with using UCS-2 (except that it > would require more storage for ASCII)?
UCS-2 is impractical without some *extremely* wide-ranging changes in the backend. To take just the most obvious point, doesn't it require allowing embedded zero bytes in text strings? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly