Re: PG 13 release notes, first draft

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:07:23PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > I like your wording, but the "that encoding" wasn't clear enough for me,
> > so I reworded it to:
> 
> >     Allow Unicode escapes, e.g., E'\u####', U&'\####', to represent any
> >     character available in the database encoding, even when the database
> >     encoding is not UTF-8 (Tom Lane)
> 
> How about "to be used for" instead of "to represent"?  "Represent" kind
> of sounds like we're using these on output, which we aren't.

Uh, I think "used for" is worse though, since we are not using it.  I
don't get the "output" feel of the word at all.

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