Re: [NOVICE] Understanding Encoding

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Beena Emerson <memissemerson(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am not able to understand how the encoding is handled. I would be happy if
> someone can tell what is happening in the following scenario:
>
> 1. I have created a database with EUC_KR encoding and created a table and
> inserted some korean value into it.
>
> =# CREATE DATABASE korean WITH ENCODING 'EUC_KR' LC_COLLATE='ko_KR.euckr'
> LC_CTYPE='ko_KR.euckr' TEMPLATE=template0;
>
> =# \c korean
>
> korean=# SHOW client_encoding;
> client_encoding
> -----------------
> UTF8
> (1 row)
>
> korean=# CREATE TABLE tbl (doc text);
>
> korean=# INSERT INTO tbl VALUES ('그레스');
>
>
> 2. If I insert non-korean values it throws error:
>
> korean=# INSERT INTO tbl VALUES ('データベース');
> ERROR: character with byte sequence 0xe3 0x83 0xbc in encoding "UTF8" has
> no equivalent in encoding "EUC_KR"
>
> korean=# SELECT * FROM tbl;
> doc
> --------
> 그레스
> (1 row)
>
>
> 3. I change the client encoding to EUC_KR and try inserting the same korean
> characters and it throws an error:
>
> korean=# SET client_encoding = 'EUC_KR';
> SET
> korean=# INSERT INTO tbl VALUES ('그레스');
> ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "EUC_KR": 0xa0 0x88
>
>
> Even the SELECT statement displays something different. I am not able to
> understand why?
>
> korean=# SELECT * FROM tbl;
> doc
> --------
> �׷���
> (1 row)
>

I wonder if you have tried changing your "locale" to ko_KR; something like:

LANG=ko_KR LC_ALL=ko_KR \
psql -d korean

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Amit Langote