Here is some background info on character sets:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html
latin1 is a superset of ascii. It will work fine for english language
encoding.
John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL
On Apr 3, 2005, at 4:46 PM, <operationsengineer1@yahoo.com> wrote:
> can anyone provide a general primjer on pgsql
> encoding?
>
> i think i set my db up as ascii encoded. is this
> optimal for an english language db? my online host
> wants to default to latin1... which seems to support
> english also.
>
> with so many choices, i'm sure problems lurk around
> every corner.
>
> tia for any advice and background you give me, and
> other newbies, so that we can encode our db correctly
> based on our design criteria.
