unicode UTF-8 columns

Started by Dennis Gearonabout 23 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Dennis Gearon
gearond@cvc.net

What column types support UTF-8 input? I think that varchar, text, and
bytea would do it, but I'm not sure.

#2Peter Eisentraut
peter_e@gmx.net
In reply to: Dennis Gearon (#1)
Re: unicode UTF-8 columns

Dennis Gearon writes:

What column types support UTF-8 input? I think that varchar, text, and
bytea would do it, but I'm not sure.

text, varchar, and char store strings in whatever encoding your database
is set up to. bytea stores bytes, not characters, so the question is
irrelevant in that case.

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