Re: Special characters in varchar/text fields

Lynna Landstreet writes:

> FileMaker directly supports accented characters as well as styled text
> (bold, italics etc.), but PostgreSQL to my knowledge does not, so for
> these things to show up properly on the web, the special characters need
> to be converted into the proper ASCII codes (and any text formatting
> needs to be done in HTML).

PostgreSQL supports all sorts of character sets perfectly well. Read the
chapter on localization in the documentation to learn about how to set it
up. (It should, in fact, work fine by default, but you didn't say whether
you tried at all.)

--
Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net