Re: [rfc] unicode escapes for extended strings

On 4/17/09, Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>  > ISTM that one of the uses of this is to say "store the character
>  > that corresponds to this Unicode code point in whatever the database
>  > encoding is"
>
> I would think you're right.  As long as the given character is in the
>  user's character set, we should allow it.  Presumably we've already
>  confirmed that they have an encoding scheme which allows them to store
>  everything in their character set.

It is probably good idea, but currently I just followed what the U&
strings do.

I can change my patch to do it, but it is probably more urgent in U&
case to decide whether they should work in other encodings too.

-- 
marko