Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:59:23 -0500 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: utf-8 support in libc? Message-ID: <1CC90809-B601-425F-AA6C-9927F7EA97AA@khera.org>
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Reading thru one of the postgres mailing lists regarding which character encoding to use for a database, someone chimed in and claimed this: Umm, you should choose an encoding supported by your platform and the locales you use. For example, UTF-8 is a bad choice on *BSD because there is no collation support for UTF-8 on those platforms. On Linux/Glibc UTF-8 is well supported but you need to make sure the locale you initdb with is a UTF-8 locale. By and large postgres correctly autodetects the encoding from the locale. Is this an accurate claim for FreeBSD? I need to have a UTF-8 encoded database in an upcoming project, and performance is always a concern. Thanks.
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