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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2011-02-19 19:00:19 -0500
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2011-02-19 19:00:19 -0500
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Documentation update for UTF16 surrogate pairs in UTF8 encoding.
Marko Kreen
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
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@@ -241,10 +241,9 @@ U&amp;"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 <literal>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.)
</para>
<para>