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* UTF-32 support in PostgreSQL ?
@ 2015-10-24 03:29 fortin.christian@videotron.ca
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From: fortin.christian@videotron.ca @ 2015-10-24 03:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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.
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* Re: [HACKERS] UTF-32 support in PostgreSQL ?
@ 2015-10-26 18:09 Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
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From: Andres Freund @ 2015-10-26 18:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On 2015-10-23 23:29:53 -0400, fortin.christian@videotron.ca wrote:
> Is PostgreSQL support UNICODE UTF-32 characters ?
No.
> If not, I think it's a must to be internationnal.
Why? I think Unicode support is a must, but I don't see why utf-32
support is. Postgres supports UTF-8, and I haven't heard any convincing
arguments why that's not sufficient.
Andres
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* Re: [HACKERS] UTF-32 support in PostgreSQL ?
@ 2015-10-26 18:11 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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From: Tom Lane @ 2015-10-26 18:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: fortin.christian@videotron.ca; +Cc: pgsql-translators; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
fortin.christian@videotron.ca writes:
> Is PostgreSQL support UNICODE UTF-32 characters ?
There's no particular intention of supporting the UTF32 representation
inside the database. We do support UTF8 representation of the entire
Unicode character set. You can transcode to and from UTF32 easily enough,
if you have a client application that prefers to work in that
representation.
regards, tom lane
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* Re: [HACKERS] UTF-32 support in PostgreSQL ?
@ 2015-10-26 20:51 Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
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From: Andrew Dunstan @ 2015-10-26 20:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: fortin.christian@videotron.ca; pgsql-translators; +Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
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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