Re: converting databases form SQL_ASCII to UTF8

Vick Khera wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Geoffrey Myers 
> > wrote:
> 
>     Here's our problem.  We planned on moving databases a few at a time.
>     Problem is, there is a process that pushes data from one database to
>     another.  If this process attempts to push data from a SQL_ASCII
>     database to a new UTF8 database and it has one of these characters
>     mentioned above, the process fails.
> 
> 
> The database's enforcement of the encoding should be the last layer that 
> does so.  Your applications should be enforcing strict utf-8 encoding 
> from start to finish.  Once this is done, and the old data already in 
> the DB is properly encoded as utf-8, then there should be no problems 
> switching on the utf-8 encoding in postgres to get that final layer of 
> verification.

Totally agree.  Still, the question remains, why not leave it as SQL_ASCII?

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Geoffrey Myers
Myers Consulting Inc.
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