From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: a "catch all" type ... such a thing?
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 20:43:31 +0200
Message-ID: <200509102043.31876.peter_e@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050908181850.G1104@ganymede.hub.org>
References: <20050908181850.G1104@ganymede.hub.org>
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Are there any data types that can hold pretty much any type of
> character? UTF-16 isn't supported (or its missing from teh docs), and
> UTF-8 doesn't appear to have a big enough range ...
UTF-8 has exactly the same "range" as UTF-16. In any case, the UTF-8
encoding in PostgreSQL is probably your best choice, unless you want to
dig into the weirdness that is MULE_INTERNAL.
--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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