Re: Supported Encoding

Volker,

Thank you, I was using UTF8 because I am accessing the database via
JDBC, and Java's default encoding is UTF8.  I wasn't sure about whether
it was a right thing to do or not.

Thank you very much.  I really appreciate your help!



Tony Nakamura


----- Original Message -----
From: Volker Paul <vpaul@dohle.com>
To: Tony Nakamura <tony@uickarate.com>; <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 2:38 AM
Subject: Re: [SQL] Supported Encoding


> > Does Postgresql support only EUC?  Basically, I am trying to save
> > international
> > fonts to Postgresql, so I'm trying to find out what exactly I need to
do.
>
> I'd suggest you try the Unicode UTF-8 encoding. It supports many
> languages, including Japanese of course, and needs no modification
> of existing programs, if you don't rely on character counting
> for output formatting.
>
> Volker Paul
>