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Re: COPY command use UTF-8 encoding and NOT UNICODE(16bits)... please confirm. Should postgresql add :set CLIENT_ENCODING to 'UTF-8'; to avoid confusion

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On Apr 6, 2005 10:22 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David Gagnon <dgagnon@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > So am I right ? Is Postgresql using UTF-8 and don`t really understand
> > UNICODE file (UCS-2)?  Is there a way I can make the COPY command with a
> > UNICODE UCS-2 encoding
> 
> Postgres only supports UTF-8, not any other encoding of Unicode.  Sorry.
> 

You can use iconv to convert the file on a *nix-like system, and there
may even be a cygwin build if you're on Windows.

http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/

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Mike Rylander
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