Re: [GENERAL] Find out encoding of data

2007-10-04 Thread joynes
Yeah you're right. I didnt test it with any special characters. It works when I do :) Thx a lot! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Find-out-encoding-of-data-tf4549554.html#a13014617 Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [GENERAL] Find out encoding of data

2007-10-02 Thread Albe Laurenz
joynes wrote: > This doesnt work for me but it is exactly what I want. When I run your > example I just get: > > >SELECT decode('10EUR', 'escape'); > decode > > 10EUR > (1 rad) > > I get the same result, both if the database is UTF8 or > ISO-Latin1 and also > with different versions

Re: [GENERAL] Find out encoding of data

2007-10-02 Thread joynes
Hi! This doesnt work for me but it is exactly what I want. When I run your example I just get: >SELECT decode('10EUR', 'escape'); decode 10EUR (1 rad) I get the same result, both if the database is UTF8 or ISO-Latin1 and also with different versions of postgres (7 and 8) And when I

Re: [GENERAL] Find out encoding of data

2007-10-02 Thread Albe Laurenz
joynes wrote: > What I really want to see is the hexadecimal or octal value > of the bytes of the retrieved data. Can postgres give me > this somehow (without exporting tables to files and look at > the files). Maybe 'decode' can help you: test=> SELECT decode('10EUR', 'escape'); decode

[GENERAL] Find out encoding of data

2007-10-01 Thread joynes
Hi! I have this problem that Im not sure if my stored data has the correct coding. When I view the data from a postgres console I just see the characters and depending on my console-encoding it looks differently. What I really want to see is the hexadecimal or octal value of the bytes of the ret