Greg Stark wrote: > Using iso-8859-1 to encode "é" as a single byte versus using UTF8 > which would take two bytes to encode it is an issue of using two > *different* encodings. But that's not what we are discussing. > There is a separate issue that some characters could theoretically > have multiple representations even within the same encoding. That is what we are discussing. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/