Re: multibyte question

On Apr 19, 2005, at 4:35 AM, neo anderson wrote:

> lately i download postgresql 8.0.2 (window version)
> from postgresql mirror website site. and i read the
> document, saying that postgresql support multibyte
> encoding
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/multibyte.html).
> but during installation, i can't find the item in the
> drop-down list, which indicates to the encoding -
> euc_tw, for instance. should i change to other
> version? or what should i do in order to create db to
> get encoding supported other than ascii? i apprecaite
> any suggestion, sincerely.
> jason

I don't recall what the encoding options are using the installer, but
you can create a database at any time with any of the supported
encodings. See the ENCODING option with CREATE DATABASE:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-createdatabase.html

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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