Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@xxxxxxx> writes: > 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. The poster to which Tom was responding was bringing it up as an issue. I was explaining how it was different. > > There is a separate issue that some characters could theoretically > > have multiple representations even within the same encoding. > > That is what we are discussing. Well the original discussion about the hungarian strings was about yet a third case entirely. Two different sequences of characters that have the same semantic significance. -- greg
