Re: Adding German Character Set to PostgresSQL

On Monday, January 02, 2012 1:47:13 pm Hagen Finley wrote:
> Hannes,
>
> The output of \l is:
>
> gpdemo=# \l
>                    List of databases
>     Name    |  Owner  | Encoding |  Access privileges
> ------------+---------+----------+---------------------
>  acn                | gpadmin | UTF8     |
>  gpdemo      | gpadmin | UTF8     |
>  philosophy | gpadmin | UTF8     |
>  postgres     | gpadmin | UTF8     |
>  template0  | gpadmin | UTF8     | =c/gpadmin  : gpadmin=CTc/gpadmin
>  template1  | gpadmin | UTF8     | =c/gpadmin   : gpadmin=CTc/gpadmin
>
> It would be easy enough to create a new database with a different encoding
> - only one record in the one in question. However, it sounded as though
> you don't believe that is the issue - that UTF8 ought to support the
> German characters I want. Am I understanding you correctly?

So now we have established where it is going to. Now to find out where it is
coming from. You said the server is running on Centos and that it was presumably
set up for a German keyboard.
From a terminal in Centos what do the below show?
locale
locale -a


>
> Hagen
>

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