Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: > On 12/3/21 14:42, Tom Lane wrote: >> Right, I envisioned that ASCII behaves the same but we'd use >> a numeric representation for high-bit-set values. These >> cases could be told apart fairly easily by charin(), since >> the numeric representation would always be three digits.
> OK, this seems the most attractive. Can we also allow 2 hex digits? I think we should pick one base and stick to it. I don't mind hex if you have a preference for that. regards, tom lane