UHC as a server encoding?
Why are certain character encodings not legal for the server_encoding?
For example, we allow EUC_KR, but disallow UHC, which is a superset of EUC_KR.
What are the rules for what is or is not allowed as server_encoding?
Is it having a conversion to MIC that is the issue? Why is that important for server encodings?
Chuck McDevitt wrote:
Why are certain character encodings not legal for the server_encoding?
For example, we allow EUC_KR, but disallow UHC, which is a superset of EUC_KR.
What are the rules for what is or is not allowed as server_encoding?
A server-encoding must have the property that all but the first byte of
a multi-byte character have the high bit set. IOW, by looking at an
arbitrary byte in a string, you must be able to tell if it's part of a
multi-byte character or an independent single byte character.
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