"stevegy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I really want to know why the server side encoding for GB18030 is not
> supported?
Because it overlaps the ASCII character set, ie, it has multibyte
characters in which some of the bytes don't have the high bit set.
That creates too many parsing risks for us to be willing to deal
with it inside the backend.
regards, tom lane
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