Re: The plan for UTF-8

Dave Rolsky <[email protected]> Thu, 3 Feb 2011 14:21:49 -0600 (CST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.dbdpg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:

> At this point, all we care about is if we are in utf8 mode, or
> byte soup mode. If the former, we assume everything coming back
> from the database is UTF-8 and mark it as such in the Perl strings.

Just to clarify, when you say "everything" here, I assume you mean 
everything except data in a BYTEA column, right?

I know we discussed this before, but it's good to be explicit.


-dave

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