Thank you all for your thoughtful suggestions. I just left for a 5 day East 
Coast business trip so I won't have a chance to tackle this gain until the 
weekend. For the record, I am running Centos as a VM on both a MAC OS 10.7 
laptop and a Windows 7 Workstation. In theory, I ought to be able use these 
differing platforms to test these suggestions more rigorously. Thanks again!

Hagen Finley
hagen.fin...@emc.com
Technical Business Consultant
EMC
303-886-1232
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On Jan 3, 2012, at 3:34, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote:

> On 01/02/12 6:21 PM, Hagen Finley wrote:
>> Yes but I couldn't input your second line - the  ('ä,ß,ö') was not possible 
>> via the psql client - just got beeped when I tried to type or paste those 
>> characters.
> 
> the problem is, MS Windows and only MS Windows uses UTF16 instead of the UTF8 
> that the entire rest of the world uses, so what looks right in Notepad or 
> other windows software, is in fact encoded wrong for any non-MS UTF8 system.  
> your SSH utility is supposed to be taking care of the differences, and it 
> generally works with VanDyke's SecureCRT but I've had issues with PuTTY.
> 
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