Re: Russian characters - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Manuel Sugawara
Subject Re: Russian characters
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In response to Russian characters  (Aarni Ruuhimäki <aarni.ruuhimaki@kymi.com>)
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Aarni Ruuhimäki <aarni.ruuhimaki@kymi.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Could I have guidelines on how to store and display (generic ?)
> Russian characters right, and Spanish as well, for that matter,
> alongside with nordic / latin1 ? Encoding ? Running RH 7.3 + Pg
> 7.4.1. Is this even possible ?

If you want to store multilingual chars you must use some encoding
that supports that, UTF-8 (Unicode) for instance. Displaying those
chars isn't PostgreSQL issue. The client must be correctly configured
(and should support the corresponding encoding) to display those
chars.

Regards,
Manuel.

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