Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 05/30/06 11:53

Erwin Moller wrote:
> Hi Group,
>
> I am starting a website for different european languages.
> The site will have texts in all kind of languages.
>
> My DB will be Postgres, the scriptinglanguage PHP (Doh).
>
> I understand that giving different META-tags above the document will result
> in correct display of the characters (eg Greek).
>
> My problem is that I also have to store the characters in my DB, Postgresql.
> Postgresql has a default characterset per DB.
>
> I was wondering what is the best way to store characters.
> Is it wise to make a stream of bytes first and store these in the DB (as
> numbers).
>
> Any advise?
>
> TIA,
>
> Erwin Moller

Erwin,

You might try asking in the comp.databases.postgressql newsgroups. You'll get a
better answer.

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