Re: PgAdmin on Windows - UTF8 and WIN1252

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On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Baptiste GONOD
<baptiste(dot)gonod(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> psql -l return that database is utf8 and show client_encoding too.
> And I install postgre on two computers, with different versions.
>
>
>>"your front-end app is messing up the encoding of what's being stored (and
>> likely what it displays as well, so you don't notice)"
> So the problem is Windows ?! It's a french version.
> It's impossible all users of windows don't notice that. The some topic on
> Internet on that problem are not solved.

No - Windows doesn't have a native client for PostgreSQL. I'm talking
about whatever application you've got that's running on top of
PostgreSQL.

>> "Knowing that this has worked correctly for many years"
> For windows'user too ?! Are you sure? :(

Positive. Most of pgAdmin was developed on Windows.

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