Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > At 2005-02-14 21:14:54 -0500, pgman@candle.pha.pa.us wrote: > > > > Should our multi-byte encoding be referred to as UTF8 or Unicode? > > The *encoding* should certainly be referred to as UTF-8. Unicode is a > character set, not an encoding; Unicode characters may be encoded with > UTF-8, among other things. > > (One might think of a charset as being a set of integers representing > characters, and an encoding as specifying how those integers may be > converted to bytes.) > > > I know UTF8 is a type of unicode but do we need to rename anything > > from Unicode to UTF8? > > I don't know. I'll go through the documentation to see if I can find > anything that needs changing.
I looked at encoding.sgml and that mentions Unicode, and then UTF8 as an acronym. I am wondering if we need to make UTF8 first and Unicode second. Does initdb accept UTF8 as an encoding? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
