Re: libpq Unicode support?

Tom Lane wrote:
> To make libpq UTF-16 capable, we'd have to change its API for all
> strings; either make the strings counted rather than null-terminated,
> or make the string elements wchar instead of char.  After that we'd
> have to hack the FE/BE protocol too (or more likely, require libpq
> to translate UTF-16 to UTF-8 before sending to the server).  I don't
> foresee anyone doing any of this, at least not in the near term.
Is there any *real* loss of functionality in not supporting
UTF-16 ? If so *should* it be supported in, say, 9.0 ? If not,
should there be a FAQ item saying why not ?

Thanks for a great database,
Karsten
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