Hi Hagen,
all german umlaut characters works fine in postgres from my experience.
Seems you have encoding issues between windows tools/console/db-client.
Use a utf8 capable client. Any java tool or pgadmin or similar are fine.
regards
Thomas
Am 02.01.2012 20:13, schrieb Hagen Finley:
Hi,
I am using psql (8.2.15) and I would like to input German characters
(e.g. ä,ß,ö) into char fields I have in a database. I am having
trouble getting the CENTOS Linux OS I am using to input German
characters via a (apparently supported) German Keyboard Layout.
However, that might be a separate matter. When I typed the German into
Notepad in Windows and attempted to cut and paste the words into an
INSERT statement, the characters do not persist:
Daß becomes DaDa and Heißt becomes HeiHeit which falls short of what I
was hoping for.
I am wondering if I need to enable an international character set
within Postgres before the German characters will input properly? If
so, it's not clear from the documentation I have attempted to find how
one enables other characters sets within Postgres? Any suggestions
will be much appreciated. Thank you.
Hagen Finley
Boulder, CO
