>>>>> "Gregory" == Gregory Stark <st...@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>>> I don't believe that the standard forbids the use of combining >>> chars at all. RFC 3629 says: >>> >>> ... This issue is amenable to solutions based on Unicode >>> Normalization Forms, see [UAX15]. Gregory> This is the relevant part. Tom was claiming that the UTF8 Gregory> encoding required normalizing the string of unicode Gregory> codepoints before encoding. I'm not sure that's true though, Gregory> is it? FWIW, the SQL spec puts the onus of normalization squarely on the application; the database is allowed to assume that Unicode strings are already normalized, is allowed to behave in implementation-defined ways when presented with strings that aren't normalized, and provision of normalization functions and predicates is just another optional feature. -- Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad) -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
