>> Agreed that the so-said "state" level requirement would be a >> non-starter. > > Or maybe support for using these as server encodings could be > removed, keeping the client_encoding part intact?
GB18030 is already client encoding only, and cannot be used as a server encoding. The only way to save GB18030 data into database is, converting GB18030 to UTF-8 (which can be done automatically). Best regards, -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS K.K. English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en/ Japanese:http://www.sraoss.co.jp
