J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Wednesday 23 September 2009 11:29:02 Richard Huxton wrote: >> agostonbejo wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> What I'm trying to do is to insert some data from a sql file into a >>> postgres DB by calling the <sql> ant task. My problem is that I can't get >>> special characters (even if they can be represented by the standard ASCII >>> charset, such as ä, ö, ü, é, etc.) to be inserted correctly. >> Those aren't ASCII. > > Actually, they are: Sorry, but actually, they aren't. ASCII is 7-bits only and doesn't include those accented characters. > ä = 132 > ö = 148 > ü = 129 > é = 130 > See: http://www.ascii.nl > Site is in dutch, but these characters are in the table headed "Extended ASCII > Codes" To the best of my knowledge there is no standard list of "extended ascii codes" - there are many different extensions. See all the various codepages on Windows/IBM, original Mac character set, the various 8-bit era computers etc. > But for this to work, the source-file needs to be created using the ASCII > codepage. Not some extension to it. Not sure what this last bit means. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
