Tom Lane wrote on 22.11.2010 20:36:
> I had the idea that the Windows version of psql was smart enough to
> set client_encoding based on the console encoding it finds itself
> running under, but I might be wrong about that. Or maybe you did
> something that overrode its default?
>
>>> I changed to "chcp 1252" before running psql (I tried several other encodings as well)
>
> Try "set client_encoding = win1252", then.
>
Thanks for the hint, unfortunately psql still shows the same behaviour.
Regards
Thomas