Re: [Dspam-devel] Dspam and PostgreSQL

[Christophe G. <chr...@ga...>]

Le 21/08/2012 15:37, Benny Pedersen a écrit :
> Den 2012-08-21 15:28, Christophe Garault skrev:
>    
>> Does this mean we can't use UTF8 as the character set of a PostgreSQL
>> database ? That sounds surprinsing to me.
>>      
> nope since utf8 is 7bit encoded
>    
Encoded by whom ? Sorry Benny but what do you mean exactly in this 
sentence ?
With UTF8 when a caracter is above 127 (ASCII) it takes 2 or more bytes 
to encode it.
That's all I know about it.

> so sql database should just use ascii bin so it does not encode unicode
>    
Ok, so it's too bad that this is not clearly stated in the official 
README as it would have saved me a lot of work ! :/

Regards.
Christophe Garault