> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 10 June 2003 09:46
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [pgadmin-hackers] [Fwd: pgadmin3 clientencoding]
> 
> Additionally, I wonder if there's an individual client encoding 
> necessary for tree display; I believe it's sufficient for it to be 
> Unicode to support all possible encodings. Think of a situation where 
> one SQL_ASCII and one EUC_JP database are residing on the 
> same server. 
> Because there's no way to convert back and forth, it's not 
> possible to 
> display the second database if the first is retrieved using 
> its native 
> encoding.

Hmm, good point. Perhaps we should just say Unicode all the time then
when we have a Unicode build.

> 
> Do we really need special encodings, besides unicode? If so, 
> this should 
> be implemented on a tree node (Server property: client 
> encoding) to make 
> it possible to let the change of encoding have immediate 
> effect, or as 
> the "System Object" setting is implemented.

No, because then you are mixing schema with commands that may affect the
schema in non-obvious ways.

Regards, Dave.

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