Re: Problem with langage encoding

From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer(at)nic(dot)fr>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Ronald Vyhmeister <rvyhmeister(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Problem with langage encoding
Date: 2008-11-28 15:13:25
Message-ID: 20081128151325.GA12045@nic.fr
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On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 02:34:17AM +0900,
Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au> wrote
a message of 188 lines which said:

> > ERROR: character 0xc3bd of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in "WIN1251"
>
> Which it does not; that character is "???" (HANGUL SYLLABLE SSYEG)

No, I don't think so. I think that 0xc3bd is the binary value, and
0xc3bd in UTF-8 is U+00FD (LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE) which is
less surprising. It is in Latin-1 but not in WIN1251.

In KOI8-R, FD is the Shcha, a common letter in Russian, so I wonder if
the database was really in Latin-1.

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