Re: SET client_encoding = 'UTF8' - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

On Mon, 19 May 2008, Tom Lane wrote:

> Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com> writes:
>> So we could add a special case in the driver to allow exactly "UTF8" as
>> well as "UNICODE", if that's the canonical way the server spells it
>> these days.
>
> +1 for that in any case, because UNICODE hasn't been the canonical
> spelling since 8.1.
>

OK, I'll make this happen.  A work around for the immediate problem is to
use the URL parameter allowEncodingChanges=true.

Kris Jurka

http://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/83/connect.html#connection-parameters