> On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 03:20, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > > In my understanding, our consensus was enabling multibyte support by > > default for 7.3. Any objection? > > Is there currently some agreed plan for introducing standard > NCHAR/NVARCHAR types.
I have such a kind of *personal* plan, maybe for 7.4, not for 7.3 due to the limitation of my free time. BTW, NCHAR/NVARCHAR is just a abbreviation of "CHAR(n) CHARACTER SET foo"(where foo is an implementaion defined charset). So I'm not too impressed by an idea implementing NCHAR/NVARCHAR alone. > What does ISO/ANSI say about multybyteness of simple CHAR types ? There's no such that idea "multybyteness" in the standard. In my understanding the standard does not restrict "normal" CHAR types to have only ASCII (more precisely "SQL_CHARACTER"). Moreover, CHAR types without CHARSET specification will a have default charset to SQL_TEXT, and its actual charset will be defined by the implementation. In summary allowing any characters including multibyte ones in CHAR types is not againt the standard at all, IMO. -- Tatsuo Ishii ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
