Hi there, This is my first post in the list. I'm a PostgreSQL user in the linux world but at the office there is a Mac computer and I have a problem with postgres in it.
The problem is when I use characters with tildes in spanish like in the follow word "países". The next is ilustrates my problem: test=# SHOW SERVER_ENCODING; server_encoding ----------------- UTF8 (1 row) test=# SELECT pg_client_encoding(); pg_client_encoding -------------------- UTF8 (1 row) test=# CREATE TABLE países (nombre VARCHAR(10)); CREATE TABLE test=# \d List of relations Schema | Name | Type | Owner --------+-------+-------+----- --- public | pases | table | dragon (1 row) The table name is created without the "í" character but if I enclose the string between quotes postgres works fine. test=# CREATE TABLE "países" (nombre VARCHAR(10)); CREATE TABLE test=# \d List of relations Schema | Name | Type | Owner --------+--------+-------+-------- public | países | table | dragon public | pases | table | dragon (2 rows) test=# \l List of databases Name | Owner | Encoding | Collation | Ctype | Access privileges -----------------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+----------------------- template0 | postgres | UTF8 | es_MX.UTF-8 | es_MX.UTF-8 | =c/postgres + | | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres template1 | postgres | UTF8 | es_MX.UTF-8 | es_MX.UTF-8 | postgres=CTc/postgres+ | | | | | =c/postgres test | dragon | UTF8 | es_MX.UTF-8 | es_MX.UTF-8 | In the linux box all works fine, so I think the problem is something particular to Mac, The Mac OS X version is 10.7.4. Darwin Users-iMac.local 11.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.0: Mon Apr 9 19:32:15 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1699.26.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 and the postgres version is 9.0.8. Can Anybody help me with my problem?