Re: Entering a character code in a query

[John Gage <jsmgage@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would just like to thank Albe and Jasen for their responses.  What an extraordinary environment Postgres is!  Human and computing.

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John Gage wrote:
> I would like to use the following query:
>
> SELECT english || '\n' || english || '\x2028' || french AS
> output FROM vocab_words_translated;
>
> where \x2028 is the hexadecimal code for a soft carriage return.
>
> However, this does not work.
>
> Can anyone help with this problem?

If you have PostgreSQL 8.4 with standard_conforming_strings = on,
you could write:

english || E'\n' || english || U&'\2028' || french

Otherwise, you have to resort to

english || E'\n' || english || chr(8232) || french

(provided your server_encoding is UTF8).

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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