Re: Database encoding and collation

[Craig James <cjames@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Rodrigo Barboza <rodrigombufrj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi guys.

I created a database with default encoding (SQL_ASCII) and default collate (C).

I created a table test like this:

create table test (a varchar (10));

Then i executed "insert into teste (a) values ('áéç&ã','Æ','ß');

After that:

select * from test;

    a

---------

 áéç&ã

 Æ

 ß

Why did it stora correctly if those values are not ASCII?

Characters are interpreted and displayed by your terminal, not the Postgres system.  I suspect that you have language settings on whatever windowing system you use.  Postgres merely interprets the characters you send as a series of 8-bit bytes.  It's up to your display system to interpret them.  If you change your display terminal's language, I expect you'll see something different.

The language settings of Postgres don't change what is stored, only how it is interpreted (such as sorting).

Craig