Re: The plan for UTF-8

"Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg-738XdyZ4GzZWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:03:13 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.dbdpg
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> We have libraries further down the path which bail out when they are
> confronted with UTF-8 strings.  These libraries are not UTF-8 ready
> (they assume that length($string) returns the number of bytes that
> would be written by print etc.), and this is something we'd need to
> fix anyway.

Okay. If you think of any smoother way to do things, or have other 
ideas to make things easier on you other than setting pg_enable_utf=0 
in the connection string, let us know. None of this is carved in 
stone yet. :)

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