> -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:pete...@gmx.net] > Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:05 AM > To: Chuck McDevitt > Cc: Itagaki Takahiro; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] UTF8 with BOM support in psql > > On tis, 2009-11-17 at 00:59 -0800, Chuck McDevitt wrote: > > Or is there a plan to read and convert the UTF-16 or UTF-32 to UTF-8, > > so psql and PostgreSQL understand it? > > (BTW, that would actually be nice on Windows, where UTF-16 is common). > > Well, someone could implement UTF-16 or UTF-whatever as client encoding. > But I have not heard of any concrete proposals about that.
Certainly that would be nice, given that UTF-16 is the "native" encoding for Java, C#, Visual Basic.net, JDBC, ODBC drivers >= ver 3.5, Microsoft Windows (all system calls use UTF-16, with a compatibility layer for old apps), and apps that Postgres users might switch from, such as MS SQLServer. But for the short term, a warning or error saying we don't support it is better than a confusing lexer error or syntax error. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
