I've just been asked how to store unicode text in a postgresql database. The
problem as I understand it is that unicode strings may contain binary 0s
which might break string handling. Since I never tried, I think it's better
to ask here before answering that question. 

The application uses ecpg so it's not only a backend question.

Michael
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Wed, 30 Aug 2000 16:00:10 -0700
Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
How to store unicode?
> I've just been asked how to store unicode text in a postgresql database. The
> problem as I understand it is that unicode strings may contain binary 0s
> which might break string handling. Since I never tried, I think it's better
> to ask here before answering that question. 

I guess you are talking about UCS encoding. There is another encoding
for Unicode, called UTF-8. It does not 0s, so you could use it with
PostgreSQL. Actually we have some unicode(utf-8) regression tests in
src/test/mb and they seem working.

> The application uses ecpg so it's not only a backend question.

I guess ecpg is ok as long as using UTF-8.
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Tatsuo Ishii

Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:40:12 +0900
t-ishii@sra.co.jp
Re: How to store unicode?