1. Would like to try if you've ever successfully put Chinese characters into the so-called "Postgresql" databases. Their four support communities appear non-asian so far. 2. My problems is, although the 8.0 documentation (ch.14 pg. 292) claims the conversion between EUC_TW and BIG5 is avalible, an actual error message reveals it 's not supported, see below command and error message: 代碼: hongkong=# set client_encoding to 'BIG5'; ERROR: conversion between BIG5 and EUC_TW is not supported Am I missing something? 3. Below lists the server_encoding is EUC_TW (the only Traditional Chinese it supports on the server side): 代碼: hongkong=# \l List of databases Name | Owner | Encoding -----------+----------+----------- hongkong | postgres | EUC_TW 4. fyi, sorry to dump you guy an "show all" screen (selected output): 代碼: hongkong=# show all hongkong-# ; name | setting ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...... lc_collate | C lc_ctype | C lc_messages | C lc_monetary | C lc_numeric | C lc_time | C .... syslog_facility | LOCAL0 syslog_ident | postgres TimeZone | Hongkong .. (139 rows) cheers, thanks in advance. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly