Re: Special characters in varchar/text fields - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Special characters in varchar/text fields
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0306071551250.2132-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Special characters in varchar/text fields  (Lynna Landstreet <lynna@gallery44.org>)
List pgsql-general
Lynna Landstreet writes:

> FileMaker directly supports accented characters as well as styled text
> (bold, italics etc.), but PostgreSQL to my knowledge does not, so for
> these things to show up properly on the web, the special characters need
> to be converted into the proper ASCII codes (and any text formatting
> needs to be done in HTML).

PostgreSQL supports all sorts of character sets perfectly well.  Read the
chapter on localization in the documentation to learn about how to set it
up.  (It should, in fact, work fine by default, but you didn't say whether
you tried at all.)

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net


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