> Tatsuo Ishii writes:
>
> > I don't think you need to change the function name "getdbencoding".
> > "get_canonical_database_encoding" is too long anyway.
>
> But getdbencoding isn't semantically different from the old
> getdatabaseencoding. "encoding" isn't the right term anyway, methinks, it
> should be "character set". So maybe database_character_set()? (No "get"
> please.)
I'm not a native English speaker, so please feel free to choose more
appropriate name.
BTW, what's wrong with "encoding"? I don't think, for example EUC-JP
or utf-8, are character set names.
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Tatsuo Ishii