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From: MauMau <[email protected]>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <[email protected]>
To: Tatsuo Ishii <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: UTF8 national character data type support WIP patch and list of open issues.
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 08:58:15 +0900
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From: "Martijn van Oosterhout" <[email protected]>
> As far as I can tell the whole reason for introducing NCHAR is to
> support SHIFT-JIS, there hasn't been call for any other encodings, that
> I can remember anyway.

Could you elaborate on this, giving some info sources?


> So rather than this whole NCHAR thing, why not just add a type
> "sjistext", and a few type casts and call it a day...

The main reason for supporting NCHAR types is to ease migration from other 
DBMSs, not requiring DDL changes.  So sjistext does not match that purpose.


Regards
MauMau



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