What would be the proper encoding? Essentially anything goes with the data
in this database-- I had language aid material that could potentially be
for any language you can type.
I don't think java is the issue-- from pgsql in the shell you get a
question mark ? for your most basic accented character.
culley
At 02:25 PM 9/11/01 +0200, you wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:25:36AM -0700, Culley Harrelson wrote:
> >
> > my isp recently upgraded form postgreSQL 7.0 to 7.1. It went pretty well
> > but I just discovered that non-english characters are now in the database
> > as a question mark-- inserting non-english characters produces a ? as
> > well. Any idea what has gone wrong and what we need to do to fix this?
>
>Your database encoding is wrong. Probably SQL_ASCII. And in
>7.1 the JDBC drivers takes account of database encoding and
>presents invalid symbols as '?'.
>
>--
>marko
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