> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 16:26:24 +0530
> From: "Shridhar Daithankar" <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in>
> To: "Prachi Jain" <prachijain3@rediffmail.com>,
> pgsql-general@postgresql.org
>
> On 28 Nov 2002 at 10:46, Prachi Jain wrote:
> > Is it possible to use Postgres with german character set. I mean
> > to say the german words like ü,ö,ä are supported by Postgres or
> > not??
>
> Postgresql supports unicode so I suppose there should be no problems with
> german either..
>
I guess Jain prefers ISO-Latin1 to Unicode.
Yes Latin1 encoding is possible and works out of the box.
Actually I never tweaked any PG settings and am happily using Umlauts.
Christoph Dalitz
