Seems like a basic question, but I can't figure out a definitive answer to this. I want to store UTF-8 characters in a TEXT field, y'know, things like umlauts and accents and that Norwegian slashed-O thingy, perhaps even South Asian Devnagari. The documentation says about text -- "TEXT. The value is a text string, stored using the database encoding (UTF-8, UTF-16BE or UTF-16-LE)."
So, what do I do? Do I have to declare the database encoding while creating the database? I find that if I update the database table via a web-form, these funky characters get clobbered. Is this something that I have to account for in my web application? How? Many thanks in advance. -- Puneet Kishor http://punkish.eidesis.org/ Nelson Inst. for Env. Studies, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/education/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- collaborate, communicate, compete ===================================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
