Re: Unicode support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Unicode support
Date
Msg-id 200904142119.23394.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Unicode support  (Greg Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Tuesday 14 April 2009 18:49:45 Greg Stark wrote:
> What's really at issue is "what is a string?". That is, it a sequence
> of characters or a sequence of code points.

I think a sequence of codepoints would be about as silly a definition as the 
antiquated notion of a string as a sequence of bytes.

> If it's the former then we
> would also have to prohibit certain strings such as U&'\0301'
> entirely. And we have to make substr() pick out the right number of
> code points, etc.

Sure enough.  That all goes along with what the original poster was saying.


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