From: Bruce Momjian Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:19 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Documentation update for UTF16 surrogate pairs in UTF8 encoding. X-Git-Tag: REL9_1_ALPHA4~128 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8c0f1e2762a896e3af890b14babd3409fa49e641;p=postgresql Documentation update for UTF16 surrogate pairs in UTF8 encoding. Marko Kreen --- diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml index 00f665ae54..b4c4b5e23e 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml @@ -241,10 +241,9 @@ U&"d!0061t!+000061" UESCAPE '!' specified. Both the 4-digit and the 6-digit form can be used to specify UTF-16 surrogate pairs to compose characters with code points larger than U+FFFF, although the availability of the - 6-digit form technically makes this unnecessary. (When surrogate - pairs are used when the server encoding is UTF8, they - are first combined into a single code point that is then encoded - in UTF-8.) + 6-digit form technically makes this unnecessary. (Surrogate + pairs are not stored directly, but combined into a single + code point that is then encoded in UTF-8.)