> Correct. The lesson is, never use locale support for Asian languages > and multibyte encodings including UTF-8. Thank you for your reply - much appreciated. I'm now concerned if and how this will affect ORDER BY query results (and other functions) with respect to Latin-1 names and words. I think I'll have to suck it and see, and then post my results - but that won't be until after this next week-end. Kind regards Harry Mantheakis London, UK ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq