German character set

On 28 Nov 2002 at 10:46, Prachi Jain wrote:

Is it possible to use Postgres with german character set. I mean
to say the german words like �,�,� are supported by Postgres or
not??

Postgresql supports unicode so I suppose there should be no problems with
german either..

Bye
Shridhar

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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 16:26:24 +0530
From: "Shridhar Daithankar" <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in>
To: "Prachi Jain" <prachijain3@rediffmail.com>,
pgsql-general@postgresql.org

On 28 Nov 2002 at 10:46, Prachi Jain wrote:

Is it possible to use Postgres with german character set. I mean
to say the german words like �,�,� are supported by Postgres or
not??

Postgresql supports unicode so I suppose there should be no problems with
german either..

I guess Jain prefers ISO-Latin1 to Unicode.

Yes Latin1 encoding is possible and works out of the box.
Actually I never tweaked any PG settings and am happily using Umlauts.

Christoph Dalitz