Re: Regarding double byte support

From: Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de>
To: Kallol Nandi <kallol(dot)nandi(at)indussoft(dot)com>
Cc: Pgsql-General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Regarding double byte support
Date: 2003-07-19 16:10:18
Message-ID: 3F196D6A.8010304@wildenhain.de
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Hi Kallol,

Kallol Nandi wrote:
> Tino,
>
> Thanks for the information.
> I already have a database with SQL_ASCII encoding.
> Is there any way that I can change the encoding to UNICODE.

The only way I know is pg_dump and dropdb, createdb and pg_restore.

HTH
Tino Wildenhain

> Regards,
> Kallol.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tino Wildenhain [mailto:tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de]
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 6:49 PM
> To: Kallol Nandi
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Regarding double byte support
>
>
> Hi Kallol Nandi,
>
> Kallol Nandi wrote:
>
>>Does Postgresql 7.2.1 support double byte characters?
>>If yes is then how to define fields that will contain double byte
>>characters?
>
>
> Although you could define your own type, you can
> use the database with UNICODE encoding (during
> creation) then all text/char fields are utf8
>
> This works pretty well for all languages.
>
> Hoever there are also different encodings available,
> I dont know how it is with chinese or such. But probably
> its mapped internally to utf8 anyway.
>
> Regards
> Tino Wildenhain
>
>
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