templates, encoding

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#1Zlatko Matić
zlatko.matic1@sb.t-com.hr

My template0 and template1 have SQL ASCII encoding, while I created a database with UNICODE encoding.
Could it cause some conflicts ? If so, how can I change templates databases to be UNICODE as well ?

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Zlatko Matić (#1)
Re: templates, encoding

=?iso-8859-2?Q?Zlatko_Mati=E6?= <zlatko.matic1@sb.t-com.hr> writes:

My template0 and template1 have SQL ASCII encoding, while I created a =
database with UNICODE encoding.
Could it cause some conflicts ? If so, how can I change templates =
databases to be UNICODE as well ?

The real question is whether the database's locale setting is compatible
with Unicode (utf-8). If not, you're going to see some problems with
comparing and sorting non-ASCII characters.

initdb is the only way to fix a bad choice of locale, unfortunately.

regards, tom lane

#3Zlatko Matić
zlatko.matic1@sb.t-com.hr
In reply to: Zlatko Matić (#1)
Re: templates, encoding

Why there is no Unicode as option during initdb. There are some encodings,
but not all alisted in PostgreSQL manual ? How different SQL ASCII is from
Unicode ?

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From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Zlatko Matiďż˝" <zlatko.matic1@sb.t-com.hr>
Cc: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] templates, encoding

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=?iso-8859-2?Q?Zlatko_Mati=E6?= <zlatko.matic1@sb.t-com.hr> writes:

My template0 and template1 have SQL ASCII encoding, while I created a =
database with UNICODE encoding.
Could it cause some conflicts ? If so, how can I change templates =
databases to be UNICODE as well ?

The real question is whether the database's locale setting is compatible
with Unicode (utf-8). If not, you're going to see some problems with
comparing and sorting non-ASCII characters.

initdb is the only way to fix a bad choice of locale, unfortunately.

regards, tom lane

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