Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] UNICODE/UTF-8 on win32

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Oh, sorry.  So there is no ordering in Unicode?

That statement is meaningless.  Unicode is a character set, not a
collation order.

> No wonder some
> languages can't use Unicode effectively.

That has nothing to do with it.

>         o Disallow encodings like UTF8 which PostgreSQL supports
>           but the operating system does not (already disallowed by
>           pginstaller)

I think the warning that initdb shouts out is already enough for this.
I don't think we want to disallow this for people who know what they
are doing.

> I assume C just compares the bytes, meaning equality comparisons are
> fine, but greater/less than is consistent but meaningless.

That statement is independent of whether you use Unicode or something
else.

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Peter Eisentraut
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