On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 12:00:32PM +0100, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> IMHO slony should behave as a unicode application, i.e. use UTF8 client 
> encoding for all database connections. This will have pgsql apply 
> conversions transparently, because most server encodings can convert 
> happily from and to UTF8.

This seems like an unreasonable imposition on people who aren't
using UTF8.  What if the application can't speak UTF8, but needs
multibyte?  That's a serious issue in parts of Japan, where there are
some rather fraught politics around Unicode.

A

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