Re: Adding German Character Set to PostgresSQL

Thanks Adrian,

Looks like I am currently using UTF8:

gpdemo=# \encoding

UTF8

And it looks like UTF8 doesn’t include the German characters I seek. Can
someone explain how I can switch to 0000-0FFF which looks like the Basic
Multilingual Plane Unicode which does include the characters I want?

Hagen

-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Klaver [mailto:adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com]
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 12:40 PM
To: Hagen Finley
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Adding German Character Set to PostgresSQL

On 01/02/2012 11:13 AM, Hagen Finley wrote:

> Hi,

>

> I am using psql (8.2.15) and I would like to input German characters

I am going to assume you are using a Postgresql 8.2.15 server(psql is the
client program for Postgres, I am being pedantic because it reduces the
confusion level:) )

> (e.g. ä,ß,ö) into char fields I have in a database. I am having

> trouble getting the CENTOS Linux OS I am using to input German

> characters via a (apparently supported) German Keyboard Layout.

> However, that might be a separate matter. When I typed the German into

> Notepad in Windows and attempted to cut and paste the words into an

> INSERT statement, the characters do not persist:

Not sure it would help, but if I had a choice I would use Wordpad.

Notepad tends to fairly brain-dead when handling text.

>

> Daß becomes DaDa and Heißt becomes HeiHeit which falls short of what I

> was hoping for.

>

> I am wondering if I need to enable an international character set

> within Postgres before the German characters will input properly? If

> so, it’s not clear from the documentation I have attempted to find how

> one enables other characters sets within Postgres? Any suggestions

> will be much appreciated. Thank you.

Using psql do a \l at the prompt. That will show what encoding the database
was setup with.

>

> Hagen Finley

>

> Boulder, CO

>

Thanks,

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Adrian Klaver

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