Re: UTF8 or Unicode

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I think we just need to _favor_ UTF8.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> > The question is where are we
> > favoring Unicode rather than UTF8?
> 
> It's the canonical name of the encoding, both in the code and the docs.
> 
> regression=# create database e encoding 'utf-8';
> CREATE DATABASE
> regression=# \l
>          List of databases
>     Name    |  Owner   | Encoding  
> ------------+----------+-----------
>  e          | postgres | UNICODE
>  regression | postgres | SQL_ASCII
>  template0  | postgres | SQL_ASCII
>  template1  | postgres | SQL_ASCII
> (5 rows)
> 
> As soon as we decide whether the canonical name is "UTF8" or "UTF-8"
> ;-) we can fix it.

I checked and it looks like "UTF-8" is the correct usage:
http://www.unicode.org/glossary/

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