Re: Find out encoding of data

joynes wrote:
> This doesnt work for me but it is exactly what I want. When I run your
> example I just get:
>
> >SELECT decode('10EUR', 'escape');
> decode
> --------
> 10EUR
> (1 rad)
>
> I get the same result, both if the database is UTF8 or
> ISO-Latin1 and also
> with different versions of postgres (7 and 8)
>
> And when I read the documentation for 'decode' it tells that
> it just decodes
> binary strings encoded with 'encode'.
> How did you get that result from running decode?

I suspect that somewhere along the line the Euro symbol I
used in the query got changed to 'EUR'.

Try some other string with weird characters.

It will show all non-ASCII characters in escaped octal
notation, while ASCII characters will remain as they are.

This should help you - if I understood you correctly,
you want to know the actual bytes stored in a database
field. To find our the numeric representation of an ASCII
field, you can use the function ascii().

Yours,
Laurenz Albe