> >From PSQL, if I perform: > \encoding LATIN9 > insert into i18ntest(id, data) values('Euro symbol', '¤'); > > then I would expect this to insert a euro symbol into the data column > (code point 164 is Euro in ISO-8859-15). However, when I change back to > UTF-8, the UTF-8 data is "¤", which is the currency symbol.
I have confirmed this. It appears to have been a copy and paste mistake. I will put the following patch into the next subrelease (7.3.1): *** ../pg73branch/pgsql/src/backend/utils/mb/conversion_procs/utf8_and_iso8859/utf8_and_iso8859.c Tue Oct 29 18:19:19 2002 --- src/backend/utils/mb/conversion_procs/utf8_and_iso8859/utf8_and_iso8859.c Mon Dec 9 20:14:43 2002 *************** *** 98,104 **** {PG_LATIN8, LUmapISO8859_14, ULmapISO8859_14, sizeof(LUmapISO8859_14) / sizeof(pg_local_to_utf), sizeof(ULmapISO8859_14) / sizeof(pg_utf_to_local)}, /* ISO-8859-14 Latin 8 */ ! {PG_LATIN9, LUmapISO8859_2, ULmapISO8859_2, sizeof(LUmapISO8859_15) / sizeof(pg_local_to_utf), sizeof(ULmapISO8859_15) / sizeof(pg_utf_to_local)}, /* ISO-8859-15 Latin 9 */ {PG_LATIN10, LUmapISO8859_16, ULmapISO8859_16, --- 98,104 ---- {PG_LATIN8, LUmapISO8859_14, ULmapISO8859_14, sizeof(LUmapISO8859_14) / sizeof(pg_local_to_utf), sizeof(ULmapISO8859_14) / sizeof(pg_utf_to_local)}, /* ISO-8859-14 Latin 8 */ ! {PG_LATIN9, LUmapISO8859_15, ULmapISO8859_15, sizeof(LUmapISO8859_15) / sizeof(pg_local_to_utf), sizeof(ULmapISO8859_15) / sizeof(pg_utf_to_local)}, /* ISO-8859-15 Latin 9 */ {PG_LATIN10, LUmapISO8859_16, ULmapISO8859_16, -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])