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From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: Latin2 and UTF-8 encoding.
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In response to Latin2 and UTF-8 encoding.  ("kpeter@oszk.hu" <kpeter@oszk.hu>)
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kpeter@oszk.hu wrote:
> The problem is that we need both UTF-8, LATIN1 and LATIN2 characters.
>
> My question is: How could I create a database with NON-UTF-8 encoding.

Just use UTF-8. UTF-8 can represent all characters that are present in
LATIN1 and LATIN2.

You can still use LATIN1 or LATIN2 as client_encoding if you need to,
even if the server uses UTF-8.

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   Heikki Linnakangas
   EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com

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