Thread: ProblemWithCharsOSX

Hi there,<br /><br />I'm a PostgreSQL user in the linux world but at the office there is a Mac computer and I have a
problemwith postgres in it.<br /><br />The problem is when I use characters with tildes in spanish like in the follow
word"países".<br /> The next is ilustrates my problem:<br /><br />test=# SHOW SERVER_ENCODING;<br /> server_encoding
<br/>-----------------<br /> UTF8<br />(1 row)<br /><br />test=# SELECT pg_client_encoding();<br /> pg_client_encoding
<br/>--------------------<br />  UTF8<br />(1 row)<br /><br />test=# CREATE TABLE países (nombre VARCHAR(10));<br
/>CREATETABLE<br />test=# \d<br />        List of relations<br /> Schema | Name  | Type  | Owner  <br
/>--------+-------+-------+--------<br/> public | pases | table | dragon<br /> (1 row)<br /><br />The table name is
createdwithout the "í" character but if I enclose the string between quotes postgres works fine.<br />test=# CREATE
TABLE"países" (nombre VARCHAR(10));<br />CREATE TABLE<br /> test=# \d<br />        List of relations<br /> Schema | 
Name | Type  | Owner  <br />--------+--------+-------+--------<br /> public | países | table | dragon<br /> public |
pases | table | dragon<br />(2 rows)<br />test=# \l<br />                                     List of databases<br />
     Name       |  Owner   | Encoding |  Collation  |    Ctype    |   Access privileges   <br
/>-----------------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------<br/> template0       |
postgres| UTF8     | es_MX.UTF-8 | es_MX.UTF-8 | =c/postgres          +<br />                  |          |         
|            |             | postgres=CTc/postgres<br /> template1       | postgres | UTF8     | es_MX.UTF-8 |
es_MX.UTF-8| postgres=CTc/postgres+<br />                 |          |          |             |             |
=c/postgres<br/>  test            | dragon   | UTF8     | es_MX.UTF-8 | es_MX.UTF-8 | <br /><br /><br />In the linux
boxall works fine, so I think the problem is something particular to Mac,<br />The Mac OS X version is 10.7.4.<br
/>DarwinUsers-iMac.local 11.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.0: Mon Apr  9 19:32:15 PDT 2012;
root:xnu-1699.26.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64x86_64<br /><br />and the postgres version is 9.0.8. <br /><br />Can Anybody help me
withmy problem?<br /><br /><div style="text-align:right">Thanks in advance,<br />Angel   <br /></div><br /><br /><br
/> <br/><br /> 

Angel Zúñiga <junior@ciencias.unam.mx> writes:
> I'm a PostgreSQL user in the linux world but at the office there is a Mac
> computer and I have a problem with postgres in it.

> The problem is when I use characters with tildes in spanish like in the
> follow word "pa�ses".
> The next is ilustrates my problem:

> test=# SHOW SERVER_ENCODING;
>  server_encoding
> -----------------
>  UTF8
> (1 row)

> test=# SELECT pg_client_encoding();
>  pg_client_encoding
> --------------------
>  UTF8
> (1 row)

> test=# CREATE TABLE pa�ses (nombre VARCHAR(10));
> CREATE TABLE
> test=# \d
>         List of relations
>  Schema | Name  | Type  | Owner
> --------+-------+-------+--------
>  public | pases | table | dragon
> (1 row)

FWIW, I cannot reproduce that as stated on my own Mac.  I suspect though
that the problem is not with Postgres per se but with your terminal
window.  If you're using Terminal, check the encoding setting in
Preferences ... Settings, and also look at Preferences ... Encodings.
You'll probably have trouble unless Terminal is using the same encoding
that psql thinks the client_encoding is.
        regards, tom lane