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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: fortin.christian@videotron.ca
To: pgsql-translators@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] UTF-32 support in PostgreSQL ?
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 16:51:13 -0400
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On 10/23/2015 11:29 PM, fortin.christian@videotron.ca wrote:
> Is PostgreSQL support UNICODE  UTF-32 characters ?
>
> If not, I think it's a must to be internationnal.
>
> To help you in this task, you could use this UTF-32 editor:
>
> https://wxmedit.github.io/downloads.html
>
> thanks.



Do you mean data stored as UTF-32, or source code in UTF-32, or 
translation files as UTF-32?

For data, UTF-32 does not meet our requirements for server side encoding 
(as well as being horribly inefficient space-wise).

cheers

andrew



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