Re: Table name with umlauts

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: rod(at)iol(dot)ie
Cc: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Table name with umlauts
Date: 2010-11-22 19:36:43
Message-ID: 15213.1290454603@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Raymond O'Donnell" <rod(at)iol(dot)ie> writes:
> On 22/11/2010 19:01, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote on 22.11.2010 19:25:
>>> It looks to me like your console is not in fact producing UTF8;
>>> it's representing as 0xf6, which I think is right for Latin1.
>>> Select the proper client_encoding.

>> I assume you mean the encoding in the console?

> No, he means the encoding on the connection:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/multibyte.html#AEN30728
> ...so that the server returns the correct characters for your console.

For this problem it's actually more the other way round: the characters
being *sent* to the server have to be in the encoding you said they'd be
in, namely client_encoding.

I had the idea that the Windows version of psql was smart enough to
set client_encoding based on the console encoding it finds itself
running under, but I might be wrong about that. Or maybe you did
something that overrode its default?

>> I changed to "chcp 1252" before running psql (I tried several other encodings as well)

Try "set client_encoding = win1252", then.

regards, tom lane

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