В Пнд, 15/11/2004 в 20:34 -0500, Tom Lane пишет:
> "Iain" <iain@mst.co.jp> writes:
> > It seems that this kind of thing pops up from time to time. I don't have v8
> > available right now to check, but is SQL_ASCII still the default DB
> > encoding? I'm wondering is unicode wouldn't be a better choice these days.
>
> IIRC you can select the default encoding at build time, so this is
> really a question for packagers not the development team.
>
> You make a good point though --- I'm a bit tempted to make it default to
> UNICODE for the Red Hat build, since Red Hat is pretty gung-ho on UTF8
> support these days.
>
> BTW, SQL_ASCII is not so much an encoding as the absence of any encoding
> choice; it just passes 8-bit data with no interpretation. So it's not
> *that* unreasonable a default. You can store UTF8 data in it without
> any problem, you just won't have the niceties like detection of bad
> character sequences.
This is, by the way, a reason why this encoding should be renamed to
SQL_8BIT (or something along these lines) and UNICODE to UTF-8.
--
Markus Bertheau <twanger@bluetwanger.de>