Re: Inserting greek letters

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Adam Witney <awitney(at)sghms(dot)ac(dot)uk>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Inserting greek letters
Date: 2004-11-26 15:31:33
Message-ID: 20041126153127.GD26060@svana.org
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On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 03:16:25PM +0000, Adam Witney wrote:
>
> Hi Martijn, thanks for your quick reply...
>
> > As for PHP, you need to have the browser and PHP agree on what
> > character set they're going to use. Then you set the client encoding
> > appropriately and PostgreSQL will make sure you get the information you
> > expect.
>
> Im not sure, where do I set the client encoding?

Execute the command:

SET CLIENT_ENCODING = <whatever PHP/the web browser is using>

Maybe:

Latin1
Latin9
UTF-8
Windows1238

You need to configure one, don't ask me how though, I don't know PHP or
HTML.

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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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> tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone
> else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.

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