On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 01:26:19AM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > David E. Wheeler wrote: > > What happens if the client encoding is *not* UTF8? > > If not UTF8, we don't do anything. I think it is sufficient that we simply > require people to use UTF8 as their client_encoding if they want DBD::Pg > to do the right thing. It's very common, and more importantly, is the only > encoding guaranteed to auto convert from any server encoding.
For the record, there is no such guarantee, but MULE_INTERNAL is the only server encoding presently lacking a conversion to UTF8. -- Noah Misch EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
