On 2007-04-03, "Albe Laurenz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to RFC 2279, the Euro, > Unicode code point 0x20AC = 0010 0000 1010 1100, > will be encoded to 1110 0010 1000 0010 1010 1100 = 0xE282AC. > > IMHO this is the only good and intuitive way for CHR() and ASCII().
It is beyond ludicrous for functions like chr() or ascii() to convert a Euro sign to 0xE282AC rather than 0x20AC. "Intuitive"? There is _NO SUCH THING_ as 0xE282AC as a representation of a Unicode character - there is either the code point, 0x20AC (which is a _number_), or the sequences of _bytes_ that represent that code point in various encodings, of which the three-byte sequence 0xE2 0x82 0xAC is the one used in UTF-8. Functions like chr() and ascii() should be dealing with the _number_ of the code point, not with its representation in transfer encodings. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com - individual and corporate NNTP services ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
