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 ... -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.