On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 21:55 +0200, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: ... >The encoding, otoh, doesn't restrict this set. It only has an impact on >the values lexical representation. (Besides, I totally agree with you, >that UTF-8 and not ISO-8859-1 should be the default encoding.)
I'd also like to see the default encoding be UTF-8. Any reason not to do this (e.g. inter-op issues with older clients might require explicitly setting encoding to ISO-8859-1)?