On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 09:28:17PM -0500, Carlos Moreno wrote:
> >I guess what changed from version 7.4.x to 8.0 is that the default
> >server_encoding changed?
>
> Some further digging through the documentation reveals (in addition
> to the fact that I seem to be an incompetent when it comes to search
> through documentation :-)) that the above is indeed the case.
Oh, I forgot that. In 8.0 the encoding is actually derived from the
locale settings, in case the platforms supports that. Previously,
SQL_ASCII was always the default IIRC.
> Apparently, conversion from latin1 to UNICODE works? (or at least
> doesn't trigger an error -- I wonder if some characters appear now
> incorrectly? I'll check that).
Yes, it works (both ways).
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