Hello, I am new to this list. I successfully compiled and installed PostgreSQL on Mac OS X. It is used in quite a large project that was developed on Linux. The application connects to the database via JDBC. Everything works fine except for one thing: Charset support. Our main customers are from Germany and we need support for characters that are not part of the ASCII charset. We need iso-8859-1. I created the database using ./createdb --encoding=LATIN1 ... . The files that are read into the database are the same that are used on the Linux machines. On LINUX everything works fine, the special charaters are displayed correct in the browser. But when the server app runs on Mac OS X, other characters are display instead. Has anyone got a solution for my problem or some experience with PostgreSQL and JDBC on the Mac??? Thanks in advance, JG ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html