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To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
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Subject: Re: a "catch all" type ... such a thing?
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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 ...

PLEASE Note: type of caracter is generally not a matter of _datatype_