Re: Bug #837: Unable to use LATIN9 (=ISO-8859-15) encoding

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:20:54AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > >From PSQL, if I perform:
> > \encoding LATIN9
> > insert into i18ntest(id, data) values('Euro symbol', '¤');
> >
> > then I would expect this to insert a euro symbol into the data column
>
> '¤' means '¤', not anything else. Maybe you want to try '\244'
> (octal).

That was a literal character 164 that the browser seems to have munged when
uploading the form (the script is also available in raw form using the URI
at the top, http://araqnid.ddts.net/~steve/i18ntest.sql)

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