Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Why is BIG5 listed as not allowing UTF8 on the client, but you can
> have UTF8 on the server and BIG5 on the client?
Because BIG5 is a client-only encoding.
> Why can't you have UTF8 on the server and client?
Sure you can.
> Why can't you have MULE_INTERNAL on the server and client?
I think it should work, although I have no experience with that
encoding.
> Why can't you have UTF8 on the server and SQL_ASCII on the client?
Sure you can, but it doesn't make much sense, because SQL_ASCII is not
really an encoding.
> Since they all support UTF8, why can't we just allow any
> server/client combination?
Because not all encodings can encode all characters. UTF8 doesn't help
that.
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