Documentation update for UTF16 surrogate pairs in UTF8 encoding.

Marko Kreen
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Bruce Momjian 2011-02-19 19:00:19 -05:00
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@ -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 <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.)
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