Re:

Jean-Michel POURE wrote:

>Le Mercredi 1 Octobre 2003 20:05, Andreas Pflug a écrit :
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>>This is not a bug of PostgreSQL, nor of pgAdmin.
>>SQL_ASCII database *should* contain only 7bit ascii characters. If you
>>use 8-bit characters, conversion is unpredictable (well, it *is*
>>predictable, but probably not what you'd like to see)
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>IMHO, SQL_ASCII database contain more than 7bit characters. I used it several
>times to store Frenc accentuated text and it worked like a charm. The name
>"ASCII" may not be well chosen. It contains more than ASCII presently.
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It's no problem storing non-UTF characters in an UNICODE database
either, you will never notice until you try to convert.
Misusing the database is not a good idea on the long run.

Regards,
Andreas