Thread: Can postgresql support chinese word?

Hi,

I am new to PostgreSQL.
Anyone can tell me does PostgreSQL support chinese word?
Which encoding or datatype or anything else should i know if i want to store the chinese word.

I do want to develop a simple application using VB.NET and PostgreSQL database system.

Thansk

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Smithveg

On Aug 28, 2007, at 22:33 , smithveg wrote:

> Anyone can tell me does PostgreSQL support chinese word?
> Which encoding or datatype or anything else should i know if i want
> to store the chinese word.

PostgreSQL supports a number of different character sets in the
client, including UTF8, BIG5, EUC_CN, EUC_TW, GBK, and GB18030. Of
these EUC_CN, EUC_TW, and UTF8 can be used as database (server)
encodings. I don't believe there are any datatype-specific issues you
would need to worry about. For more information, see:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/multibyte.html

Hope this helps.

Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net