Aarni Ruuhimäki <aarni(dot)ruuhimaki(at)kymi(dot)com> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> Could I have guidelines on how to store and display (generic ?)
> Russian characters right, and Spanish as well, for that matter,
> alongside with nordic / latin1 ? Encoding ? Running RH 7.3 + Pg
> 7.4.1. Is this even possible ?
If you want to store multilingual chars you must use some encoding
that supports that, UTF-8 (Unicode) for instance. Displaying those
chars isn't PostgreSQL issue. The client must be correctly configured
(and should support the corresponding encoding) to display those
chars.
Regards,
Manuel.