Re: pgadmin3 clientencoding

On Tuesday 10 June 2003 11:11, you wrote:
> > 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.

This question was asked during PhpPgAdmin development. The answer is that "set
client_encoding" is not always safe.

For example:
- server = SJSS
- client = Unicode
= mostly safe

- server = Latin1
- client = Unicode
= not safe, because if you enter some non-regular characters, they will be
dropped during conversion.

Cheers,
Jean-Michel