Re: German umlauts in pgadmin III

Hi Albin,

Albin Blaschka wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am confronted with a little problem in pgadmin III:
> 
> Table cells and comments on database objects are not 
> properly displayed if they contain a german umlaut.
> The table cells just contain  ", the comments (on tables,
> for example) are completly empty.
> In pgadmin II everything is okay, if I connect via
> ODBC/Access to the tables, the umlauts are properly
> displayed, too.
> 
> Plattform for pgadmin: Win 2000
> Database: Postgres 7.3.2 on Debian Linux Woody (3.0),
> Database encoding SQL_ASCII                    ^^^^^^^^^^

This is wrong. You cant have Umlauts with ASCII.
If you input them, you violate the ASCII codeset,
wich is 7 Bit only.
You'll have to recode your data to ISO8859-1
(Latin-1) or any superset (UNICODE)
Then pgadminIII works as well as any other
application. For migration or your apps
they should just set their client_encoding
to iso8859-1 then (if you choose UNICODE)

Regards
Tino Wildenhain