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 Sent from my iPad 2 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. > > -- > john r pierce N 37, W 122 > santa cruz ca mid-left coast > > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general