Am Dienstag, 2. November 2004 13:15 schrieb Dennis Bjorklund: > On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > A collation implies a character set, so you only need to store one piece > > of information anyway. > > No, a collation implies a character repertoire like UCS (unicode), it can > apply to several character sets like UTF8 and UTF16.
For the theoretical specification of a collation, it might suffice to know the character repertoire. But I think in practice, the implementation of a collation will require knowing the specific character encoding. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
