Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: >> The correct encoding name is "UTF-8".
> True, but Peter says the ANSI standard calls it UTF8 so that's what I > used. What SQL99 actually says is - UTF8 specifies the name of a character repertoire that consists of every character represented by The Unicode Standard Version 2.0 and by ISO/IEC 10646 UTF-8, where each character is encoded using the UTF-8 encoding, occupying from 1 (one) through 6 octets. That is, "UTF8" is an identifier chosen to refer to an encoding which they know perfectly well is really called UTF-8. We should probably follow the same convention of using UTF8 in code identifiers and UTF-8 in documentation. In particular, UTF_8 with an underscore is sanctioned by nobody and should be avoided. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq