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Tanner Clary commented on CALCITE-6001:
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Yeah these are all good questions/suggestions. The initial draft PR is
definitely a WIP. I'll do some more investigating next week and will get back
to you.
> Add useUtf8AsDefaultCharset flag to SqlConformanceEnum to allow encoding of
> non-ISO-8859-1 characters
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> Key: CALCITE-6001
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-6001
> Project: Calcite
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Tanner Clary
> Assignee: Tanner Clary
> Priority: Major
> Labels: pull-request-available
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> Many dialects supported by Calcite encode their strings using a default
> charset (most commonly UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1). For example, BigQuery uses
> [UTF-8|https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/data-types#string_type].
> I am proposing to add a dialect property to be referenced when converting
> string literals so that the current dialect's default is used unless
> otherwise specified.
> Presently, if no charset is specified when converting to RexLiterals
> [here|https://github.com/apache/calcite/blob/main/core/src/main/java/org/apache/calcite/rex/RexBuilder.java#L1618],
> the CalciteSystemProperty {{DEFAULT_CHARSET}} is used
> ([docs|https://github.com/apache/calcite/blob/main/core/src/main/java/org/apache/calcite/config/CalciteSystemProperty.java#L300])
> which is set as ISO-8859-1.
> This means that when converting a query like:
> {{select 'ק' as result;}}
> you will get the following the error: {{Failed to encode 'ק' in character
> set 'ISO-8859-1'}}.
> This failure is unexpected if you are using BigQuery conformance(or any
> dialect whose default is UTF-8).
> Of course an alternative solution would be to just change the Calcite default
> to UTF-8 which supports encoding any UNICODE character while ISO-8859-1 can
> only encode the first 256, but I imagine there are reasons against this.
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