Re: Unicode support

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> - - wrote:
>
>   
>> 1) Functions like char_length() or length() do NOT return the number
>> of characters (the manual says they do), instead they return the
>> number of code points.
>>     
>
> I think you have client_encoding misconfigured.
>
> alvherre=# select length('á'::text);
>  length 
> --------
>       1
> (1 fila)
>
>
>   

Umm, but isn't that because your encoding is using one code point?

See the OP's explanation w.r.t. canonical equivalence.

This isn't about the number of bytes, but about whether or not we should 
count characters encoded as two or more combined code points as a single 
char or not.

cheers

andrew