> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:37 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.steh...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Yes, what I know almost all use utf8 without problems. Long time I didn't >>> see any request for multi encoding support. >> >> Well, not *everything* can be represented as UTF-8; I think this is >> particularly an issue with Asian languages. > > What cannot be represented as UTF-8? UTF-8 can represent every > character in the Unicode character set, whereas UTF-16 can encode > characters 0 to 0x10FFFF. > > Does support for alternative multi-byte encodings have something to do > with the Han unification controversy? I don't know terribly much about > this, so apologies if that's just wrong.
There's a famous problem regarding conversion between Unicode and other encodings, such as Shift Jis. There are lots of discussion on this. Here is the one from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/170559/EN-US -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
