Re: ConnSettings

> -----Original Message-----
> From: claus [mailto:ch(at)greenmail(dot)ch]
> Sent: 14 August 2003 14:15
> To: pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Cc: Dave Page
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] ConnSettings
>
>
> OK I will try pgadmin III beta I think it is stable enough for me.
>
> Nevertheless if I execute
> SET CLIENT_ENCODING = LATIN1;
> in an SQL Window the character display is fine even in
> pgadmin II since the translation is (I guess) done by the
> server process and vb just diplays character it can display.
> So I thought the ConnSetting does the same but it seems not
> to be used.

It depends on the character set. It'll most likely fail miserably if you
have multibyte charactersets such as EUC_JP or JOHAB.

Regards, Dave.