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From: MauMau <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Boguk,    Maksym <[email protected]>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: UTF8 national character data type support WIP patch and list of open issues.
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 07:46:37 +0900
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From: "Tom Lane" <[email protected]>
> Another point to keep in mind is that UTF16 is not really any easier
> to deal with than UTF8, unless you write code that fails to support
> characters outside the basic multilingual plane.  Which is a restriction
> I don't believe we'd accept.  But without that restriction, you're still
> forced to deal with variable-width characters; and there's nothing very
> nice about the way that's done in UTF16.  So on the whole I think it
> makes more sense to use UTF8 for this.

I feel so.  I guess why Windows, Java, and Oracle chose UTF-16 is ... it was 
UCS-2 only with BMP when they chose it.  So character handling was easier 
and faster thanks to fixed-width encoding.

Regards
MauMau



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