Re: server , client encoding issue

surabhi.ahuja wrote:
> when i connect to it
> it shows: server_encoding : LATIN9
> and client_encoding: LATIN9
>
> from where did it get these values

 From your environment - the machine is presumably defaulting to some
locale that uses LATIN9 for it's character-set.

> i want them to be UNICODE.
>
> please help
> ( i know there is a workaround to this problem -
> /usr/bin/createdb -E UNICODE temp )
>
> but this is happening at a particular machine . On other machines it is UNICODE.

It's not really a workaround - I always specify encoding for the
databases I create (precisely to avoid this sort of problem).

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd