Re: AL32UTF8
[email protected] (Tim Bunce)
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 03:49:13PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > > > Okay. Thanks. > > > > Basically I need to document that Oracle "AL32UTF8" should be used > > as the client charset in preference to the older "UTF8" because > > "UTF8" doesn't do the "best"? thing with surrogate pairs. > > "because what Oracle calls UTF8 is not conformant with the modern > definition of UTF8" Thanks Jarkko. Tim. > > Seems like "best" is the, er, best word to use here as "right" > > would be too strong. But then the "shortest form" requirement > > is quite strong so perhaps "modern standard" would be the right words. > > > > Tim. > > > -- > Jarkko Hietaniemi <[email protected]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special > biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen