On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 03:30:26PM +0200, Stefan Heymann wrote:
> >>> I'd prefer to have an option to use UTF-16 (treated as a 2-byte
> >>> character set with surrogate pairs) as that will only halve the
> >>> maximum allowed number of characters.
>
> The maximum allowed number of characters in Unicode is about 1
> Million. Which can be perfectly represented by either UTF-8 or UTF-16.
If I understood correctly, Mark meant maximum possible length for
char() and varchar() types, not the number of characters that can be
represented. But as already pointed out, to be able to get to one half
of the length available for 8-bit encodings, one would actually have to
use UCS-2, not UTF-16.
Michal Kubeček
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