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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: UTF8 national character data type support WIP patch and list of open issues.
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 19:28:08 -0500
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Tatsuo Ishii <[email protected]> writes:
>> MULE is completely evil.
>> It has N different encodings for the same character,

> What's wrong with that? It aims that in the first place.

It greatly complicates comparisons --- at least, if you'd like to preserve
the principle that strings that appear the same are equal.

			regards, tom lane


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