PostgeSQL ODBC - "ANSI" misnomer (Re: Snapshot 08.01.0006 available for testing)

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"ANSI" misnomer (Re: Snapshot 08.01.0006 available for testing)

Marc Herbert

2005-11-08, 9:24 am

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:

> Dave Page wrote:
>
> Out of curiosity, why would it be called "ANSI"? Is this particular
> version standardized by ANSI? :)

<http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/a.../31/144893.aspx>

<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...rog6_topic1.asp>

"The term "ANSI" as used to signify Windows code pages is a
historical reference, but is nowadays a misnomer that continues to
persist in the Windows community."

And "unicode" actually means UCS-2 or UTF-16 (depending on the platform).

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