Unicode strings and data types

From: Steve_Miller(at)sil(dot)org
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Unicode strings and data types
Date: 2003-02-05 14:09:39
Message-ID: OFEC658F8C.4A766260-ON86256CC4.004D7FD5@sil.org
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In SQL Server, if we want Unicode data, we use data types like NCHAR and
NVARCHAR. I don't see anything like that in PostgreSQL. After some
searching, it looks like I need to create the database with Unicode
endcoding:

createdb -E UNICODE MyDb
CREATE DATABASE MyDb WITH ENCODING = UNICODE

Is that right? Or are there Unicode data types already in the database
somewhere, and I missed them?

Steve Miller
SIL International

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