Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] UNICODE/UTF-8 on win32
Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
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Bruce Momjian wrote: > Oh, sorry. So there is no ordering in Unicode? That statement is meaningless. Unicode is a character set, not a collation order. > No wonder some > languages can't use Unicode effectively. That has nothing to do with it. > o Disallow encodings like UTF8 which PostgreSQL supports > but the operating system does not (already disallowed by > pginstaller) I think the warning that initdb shouts out is already enough for this. I don't think we want to disallow this for people who know what they are doing. > I assume C just compares the bytes, meaning equality comparisons are > fine, but greater/less than is consistent but meaningless. That statement is independent of whether you use Unicode or something else. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [email protected]