Re: change db encoding? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Gábor Farkas
Subject Re: change db encoding?
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Msg-id 433917D2.3030306@nekomancer.net
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In response to Re: change db encoding?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 27. September 2005 10:15 schrieb Gábor Farkas:
>
>>for historical reasons ;)  (are there any other reasons),
>>we have a postgres db,
>>where the data are in iso-8859-15 encoding,
>>but the "database encoding" is iso-8859-1.
>>
>>2. if it remains like it is currently, when can there be problems?
>
>
> Problems will only occur for characters which are not in both -1 and -15.  For
> exampel, if you have text with a Euro symbol in your database, and the server
> wants to recode it to a different encoding because, say, the client runs in
> UTF-8, then you will get wrong output.  So it's in your interest to fix this.

so only at re-encoding?

i'm asking because right now it works fine (yes, even for those chars
that are different between -1 and -15).

in other words, could you tell me a test-case when an error might happen?

thanks,
gabor

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