SQL_ASCII encoding

Started by CSNover 22 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1CSN
cool_screen_name90001@yahoo.com

What exactly is the "SQL_ASCII" encoding for
databases? Is it like Unicode, UTF-8, ISO_8859_x, ...?
In what cases wouldn't you want to use it?

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#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: CSN (#1)
Re: SQL_ASCII encoding

CSN <cool_screen_name90001@yahoo.com> writes:

What exactly is the "SQL_ASCII" encoding for
databases?

We interpret it pretty much as "we don't know the encoding". We store
what the client sends and then regurgitate it, without any encoding
conversion in either direction. Internal operations only understand
7-bit-ASCII characters in this mode.

regards, tom lane