On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 08:58:53AM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > For example, "CREATE TABLE t1(t NCHAR(10))" will succeed if NCHAR is > UTF-8 and database encoding is UTF-8. Even succeed if NCHAR is > SHIFT-JIS and database encoding is UTF-8 because there is a conversion > between UTF-8 and SHIFT-JIS. However will not succeed if NCHAR is > SHIFT-JIS and database encoding is ISO-8859-1 because there's no > conversion between them.
As far as I can tell the whole reason for introducing NCHAR is to support SHIFT-JIS, there hasn't been call for any other encodings, that I can remember anyway. So rather than this whole NCHAR thing, why not just add a type "sjistext", and a few type casts and call it a day... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <klep...@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does > not attach much importance to his own thoughts. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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