From: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: Guile User <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: iconv or something like that
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:07:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rmi61faslqv.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oat27jk0.fsf@yeeloong.lan> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:00:31 -0400")
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Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
> It would be good if someone with more knowledge of databases would chime
> in here.
I'm pretty fuzzy on the details, but postgresql can handle the concept
of varying encodings and converting on the fly, so that you can tell a
session that you want a particular encoding. So if guile is set up to
have unicode always, then presumably the db->guile conversions should
just do that.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/multibyte.html
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-23 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-23 11:31 iconv or something like that Konrad Makowski
2014-10-23 18:00 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-10-23 18:07 ` Greg Troxel [this message]
2014-10-25 7:03 ` Konrad Makowski
2014-10-25 8:24 ` Konrad Makowski
2014-10-25 18:51 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-25 20:25 ` Konrad Makowski
2014-10-26 9:50 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-10-26 16:21 ` Barry Schwartz
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