XML only working in UTF-8 - Re: 8.4 open items list

josh@agliodbs.com (Josh Berkus) writes:
> This one is also really bad, but probably only Doc-patchable.
> However, can SQL/XML really be said to be core functionality if it
> only works in UTF-8?
>     * BUG #4622: xpath only work in utf-8 server encoding

Well, much of the definition of XML assumes the use of Unicode, so I
don't feel entirely badly about there being such a restriction.

It seems likely to me that opening its use to other encodings has a
considerable risk of breaking due to a loss of, erm, "closure," in the
mathematical sense.  Or, alternatively, opening a Pandora's Box of
needing to do translations to prevent mappings from breaking.
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