Re: MSSQL to PostgreSQL : Encoding problem

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Arnaud Lesauvage <thewild@freesurf.fr>
Cc: Tomi NA <hefest@gmail.com>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-11-22T13:43:18Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Arnaud Lesauvage wrote:
> Tomi NA a écrit :
> >>I think I'll go this way... No other choice, actually !
> >>The MSSQL database is in SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_Cl_AS.
> >>I don't really understand what this is. It supports the euro
> >>symbol, so it is probably not pure LATIN1, right ?
> >
> >I suppose you'd have to look at the latin1 codepage character table
> >somewhere...I'm a UTF-8 guy so I'm not well suited to respond to the
> >question. :)
> 
> Yep, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin-1 tells me that 
> LATIN1 is missing the euro sign...
> Grrrrr I hate this !!!

So use Latin9 ...

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