Re: character encoding - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Condor
Subject Re: character encoding
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Msg-id fe0ca840420b75a6bc8cb5030549eb9d@stz-bg.com
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In response to Re: character encoding  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
On 2012-12-06 17:30, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 12/06/2012 07:20 AM, Doug Kunzman wrote:
>> I'm trying to support an automatic character encoding to UNICODE so
>> Java
>> strings with none ASCII character can be stored in a table.
>>
>> I've edited my postgressql.conf with the following command,
>> PGCLIENTENCODING=UNICODE
>>
>> And I'm getting this error message,
>>
>> FATAL:  unrecognized configuration parameter "PGCLIENTENCODING"
>>
>> Any ideas?  your help would be appreciated.
>
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/runtime-config-client.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-CLIENT-FORMAT
>
> client_encoding (string)
> Sets the client-side encoding (character set). The default is to
> use the database encoding. The character sets supported by
> the PostgreSQL server are described in Section 22.3.1.
>
> I believe PGCLIENTENCODING is the env setting.
>
>>
>> Thanks, doug
>
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian.klaver@gmail.com

PGCLIENTENCODING is env setting. You can set it before logging in to
database like:

PGCLIENTENCODING=win1251
export PGCLIENTENCODING

and then: psql -U x database


Regards,
Hristo Simeonov




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