Achilleus Mantzios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So if SQL_ASCII should be fine for UTF-8 storage. > (here i must have missed something, tho..), whats > the purpose of server_encoding=UNICODE?
If you use SQL_ASCII, the server will *store* Unicode just fine, but it won't *know* it is Unicode. So if you just want raw data storage it doesn't matter. If you would like to sort the data, upper-case or lower-case it, or have automatic conversions to different client encodings, you had better tell the server the truth about what it is storing. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org