Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Am Freitag, 25. Februar 2005 16:26 schrieb Bruce Momjian: > > OK, but what about latin1? > > The following character set names are specified in the SQL standard and > therefore somewhat non-negotiable: > > SQL_CHARACTER > GRAPHIC_IRV > LATIN1 > ISO8BIT > UTF16 > UTF8 > UCS2 > SQL_TEXT > SQL_IDENTIFIER > > So we have to use LATIN1, even though it creates an inconsistency. We > discussed this a while ago during the last great renaming, I think. >
Oh, UTF8 and not UTF-8? I thought UTF-8 was the standard name, but if ANSI uses UTF8 we will have to use that. > Btw., I think ISO8BIT is the correct name for what we call SQL_ASCII, but I > haven't analyzed that in detail, yet. OK, please let us know. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
