On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 09:03:56AM +0900, Itagaki Takahiro wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 01:34, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > >> I agree that "the default encoding is UTF-8", but it should be > >> configurable by the 'encoding' parameter in control files. > > > > Why is it necessary to have such a parameter at all? > > UTF-8 is not a superset of all encodings.
I think you mean Unicode is not a superset of all character sets. I've heard this before but never found what's missing. [citation needed]? Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <klep...@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, > when hate for people other than your own comes first. > - Charles de Gaulle
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