Re: Character encoding

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Dennis Björklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Character encoding
Date: 2003-06-10 17:47:15
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0306101915100.2367-100000@peter.localdomain
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Dennis Björklund writes:

> When you run psql with a different language then english the strings are
> usually in a character set that is not pure ascii. For example to
> represent swedish you need either latin1 or unicode. Therefor the po file
> for swedish is in latin1.

Yes, you need to set your client encoding to match the PO files. Maybe we
should try to keep the (translated) column headers within the client, to
side-step this issue. Do you want to investigate that?

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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