Re: German umlauts in pgadmin III

Actually, it's a wording issue:
ASCII:   7-bit
Extended ASCII (Latin 1):   8-bit

Personally, whenever i say ASCII, i usually mean Extended ASCII.

Regards.

Tino Wildenhain wrote:

> 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
>
>
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