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Re: Charset Win1250 on Windows and Ubuntu

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On Friday 18 December 2009 4:30:46 am Durumdara wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a software that uses Postgresql. This program (and website)
> developed and working on Window (XP/2003), with native charset (win1250).
>
> Prior week we got a special request to install this software to a Linux
> server.
>
> Yesterday I installed Ubu9.10 on VirtualBox, and tried to moving the
> database under Linux.
>
> First big problem is that when I tried to create a database with same
> parameters as in Windows, the PGAdmin show an error.
> The errormessage is:
> "Error: new encoding (Win1250) is incompatible with the encoding of the
> template database (UTF8)."
>
> Ok, I changed to "template0".
>
> Then I got error that Win1250 is not good for collation hu_HU.UTF8.
>
> When I tried to insert hungarian chars (to check sort order), the C and
> POSIX return wrong result - as I thought before.
>
> The Windows version of PG and Admin is not supports collation, so these two
> options are disable (collation, character type).

There is a Linux version of PGAdmin available for Ubuntu 9.10. 

>
> But in Linux I have only UTF version that can sort rows in good order.
>
> The problem that the client program is win1250 based, and I must rewrite
> all things to make same results.
>
> Have anybody some way, some tricky solution for this problem?

Use psql and CREATE DATABASE:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/sql-createdatabase.html

>
> Thanks for your help:
>     dd



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