UNICODE and UTF-8

Started by Alain Rogerover 19 years ago4 messagesgeneral
Jump to latest
#1Alain Roger
raf.news@gmail.com

Hi,

I tried to reproduce the same DB on my local server as my web provider gave
me access.

On this DB (from provider) i can see via phpAdmin pages that encoding is
setup to UNICODE.
after reading some documentation, i've seen that i had to create my DB on my
local server like that :

create database mydatabase with encoding='UNICODE';

however, when i do this, my encoding is in UTF-8 via phpAdmin.
UTF8 is a part of UNICODE, but as i'm not sure on how many bits is UNICODE,
how can i setup my local DB to UNICODE value as my provider has ?

thanks a lot,

Al.

#2Martijn van Oosterhout
kleptog@svana.org
In reply to: Alain Roger (#1)
Re: UNICODE and UTF-8

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 04:23:02PM +0100, Alain Roger wrote:

however, when i do this, my encoding is in UTF-8 via phpAdmin.
UTF8 is a part of UNICODE, but as i'm not sure on how many bits is UNICODE,
how can i setup my local DB to UNICODE value as my provider has ?

As far a postgres is concerned, UTF8 is UNICODE. IIRC some versions
said one name, some the other, but they mean the same thing.

So maybe you have a different version than your provider?

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/

Show quoted text

From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.

#3Alain Roger
raf.news@gmail.com
In reply to: Martijn van Oosterhout (#2)
Re: UNICODE and UTF-8

Yes, my provider has v8.0.1 and i have installed v8.1.4.

thanks for your confirmation.

Al.

Show quoted text

On 11/4/06, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> wrote:

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 04:23:02PM +0100, Alain Roger wrote:

however, when i do this, my encoding is in UTF-8 via phpAdmin.
UTF8 is a part of UNICODE, but as i'm not sure on how many bits is

UNICODE,

how can i setup my local DB to UNICODE value as my provider has ?

As far a postgres is concerned, UTF8 is UNICODE. IIRC some versions
said one name, some the other, but they mean the same thing.

So maybe you have a different version than your provider?

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/

From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to

litigate.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFFTMEVIB7bNG8LQkwRAhH4AJ9PlOoZeP7zQ1VG6/6bT1aqcUTz9gCeKM5U
poP157BzFSv0LUGu8fU1iUc=
=PJtK
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

#4A.M.
agentm@themactionfaction.com
In reply to: Martijn van Oosterhout (#2)
Re: UNICODE and UTF-8

On Nov 4, 2006, at 11:34 , Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 04:23:02PM +0100, Alain Roger wrote:

however, when i do this, my encoding is in UTF-8 via phpAdmin.
UTF8 is a part of UNICODE, but as i'm not sure on how many bits is
UNICODE,
how can i setup my local DB to UNICODE value as my provider has ?

As far a postgres is concerned, UTF8 is UNICODE. IIRC some versions
said one name, some the other, but they mean the same thing.

So maybe you have a different version than your provider?

Somewhere around release 8, the encoding "UTF8" was made to mean what
"UNICODE" meant before. "Unicode" is not an encoding so "UTF-8" is
the proper terminology.

Cheers,
M