Thanks Adrian, Looks like I am currently using UTF8: gpdemo=# \encoding UTF8 And it looks like UTF8 doesn’t include the German characters I seek. Can someone explain how I can switch to 0000-0FFF which looks like the Basic Multilingual Plane Unicode which does include the characters I want? Hagen -----Original Message----- On 01/02/2012 11:13 AM, Hagen Finley wrote: > Hi, > > I am using psql (8.2.15) and I would like to input German characters I am going to assume you are using a Postgresql 8.2.15 server(psql is the client program for Postgres, I am being pedantic because it reduces the confusion level:) ) > (e.g. ä,ß,ö) into char fields I have in a database. I am having > trouble getting the CENTOS Linux OS I am using to input German > characters via a (apparently supported) German Keyboard Layout. > However, that might be a separate matter. When I typed the German into > Notepad in Windows and attempted to cut and paste the words into an > INSERT statement, the characters do not persist: Not sure it would help, but if I had a choice I would use Wordpad. Notepad tends to fairly brain-dead when handling text. > > Daß becomes DaDa and Heißt becomes HeiHeit which falls short of what I > was hoping for. > > I am wondering if I need to enable an international character set > within Postgres before the German characters will input properly? If > so, it’s not clear from the documentation I have attempted to find how > one enables other characters sets within Postgres? Any suggestions > will be much appreciated. Thank you. Using psql do a \l at the prompt. That will show what encoding the database was setup with. > > Hagen Finley > > Boulder, CO > Thanks, -- Adrian Klaver |
