Re: Extensions, patch v20 (bitrot fixes)

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 02:10:39PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 08:01:42PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> >> I think you mean Unicode is not a superset of all character sets. I've
> >> heard this before but never found what's missing. [citation needed]?
> 
> > Windows-1252, ISO-2022-JP-2 and EUC-TW are such encodings.
> 
> [citation needed]?  Exactly what characters are missing, and why would
> the Unicode people have chosen to leave them out?  It's not like they've
> not heard of those encodings, I'm sure.
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 

Here is an interesting description of some of the gotchas:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252

Regards,
Ken