Re: [HACKERS] sql92 character sets

2004-04-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Dennis Bjorklund wrote: > What I have understod so far is that form-of-use is the encoding. So > if the character set is UNICODE then the form-of-use could be UTF-8, > UTF-16 and so on. Exactly. > The character repertoire however I don't have an intuition about it > all. A character repertoire i

[HACKERS] sql92 character sets

2004-04-13 Thread Dennis Bjorklund
For my own amusement I'm reading the sql 92 spec about character sets. There are some concepts that are a bit difficult that maybe someone can explain for me: character set character repertoire for example in 4.2.1 it says: A character set is described by a character set descriptor. A