Re: UTF8 national character data type support WIP patch and list of open issues.

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 08:58:53AM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> For example, "CREATE TABLE t1(t NCHAR(10))" will succeed if NCHAR is
> UTF-8 and database encoding is UTF-8. Even succeed if NCHAR is
> SHIFT-JIS and database encoding is UTF-8 because there is a conversion
> between UTF-8 and SHIFT-JIS. However will not succeed if NCHAR is
> SHIFT-JIS and database encoding is ISO-8859-1 because there's no
> conversion between them.

As far as I can tell the whole reason for introducing NCHAR is to
support SHIFT-JIS, there hasn't been call for any other encodings, that
I can remember anyway.

So rather than this whole NCHAR thing, why not just add a type
"sjistext", and a few type casts and call it a day...

Have a nice day,
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