Re: [SQL] psql on FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p2 and greek (iso8859-7) chars

On Thursday 21 November 2002 12:38, Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that psql on FreeBSD (i checked also fbsd 4.5 with pgsql port
> installed)
> does not accept 8bit iso8859-* chars > 128 (where the greek chars are).
>
> In linux that works ok, and i can update/insert/select values
> using greek strings.
>
> I know it must be a fbsd/locale issue

It is.

> but it would be nice
> if someone knew something about it.

Are you able to input Greek characters in the shell you call
psql from? Do you have any LC_ environment variables set?

The FreeBSD handbook has a useful section on this:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n.html

HTH

Ian Barwick
barwick@gmx.net