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		sgarland on Oct 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions? While obviously I prefer Unicode, latin-1 is perfectly acceptable for most use cases in Western cultures. What part of searching have you found to not work well using it?

GoblinSlayer on Oct 20, 2024 [–]

The catch is that PHP backend passes strings in utf8.

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