Re: Accented chars in several apps

From: "G(dot) Brannon Smith" <brannonsmith(at)earthlink(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Accented chars in several apps
Date: 2004-04-09 20:32:34
Message-ID: CLDdc.2528$zj3.715@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net
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Answering my own post. I went ahead and bit the bullent and dumped the
whole thing over to ENCODING = 'UNICODE'. Wasn't nearly as painful as I
thought it would be... although I guess the DB has now effectively
doubled in size.

G. Brannon Smith wrote:
> I have a personal database of my books, several of which are French with
> accented characters in their titles. However I am getting inconsistent
> display of the accent characters depending on the app I am using to
> access the DB.
>
> When the accents show up OK in psql and phpPgAdmin,
> they look like garbage in pgaccess and pgadmin3.
> If I correct them in pgaccess and/or pgadmin3,
> they look like garbage in psql and phpPgAdmin.
>

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