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From: Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: John Naylor <john.naylor@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 23:08:35 -0400
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On 05/11/20 22:48, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:07:23PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>>> 	Allow Unicode escapes, e.g., E'\u####', U&'\####', to represent any
>>> 	character available in the database encoding, even when the database
>>> 	encoding is not UTF-8 (Tom Lane)
>>
>> How about "to be used for" instead of "to represent"?  "Represent" kind
>> of sounds like we're using these on output, which we aren't.
> 
> Uh, I think "used for" is worse though, since we are not using it.  I
> don't get the "output" feel of the word at all.

'specify' ?

-Chap

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