Hi there,

I'm a PostgreSQL user in the linux world but at the office there is a Mac
computer and I have a problem with postgres in it.

The problem is when I use characters with tildes in spanish like in the
follow word "países".
The next is ilustrates my problem:

test=# SHOW SERVER_ENCODING;
server_encoding
-----------------
UTF8
(1 row)

test=# SELECT pg_client_encoding();
pg_client_encoding
--------------------
UTF8
(1 row)

test=# CREATE TABLE países (nombre VARCHAR(10));
CREATE TABLE
test=# \d
List of relations
Schema | Name | Type | Owner
--------+-------+-------+--------
public | pases | table | dragon
(1 row)

The table name is created without the "í" character but if I enclose the
string between quotes postgres works fine.
test=# CREATE TABLE "países" (nombre VARCHAR(10));
CREATE TABLE
test=# \d
List of relations
Schema | Name | Type | Owner
--------+--------+-------+--------
public | países | table | dragon
public | pases | table | dragon
(2 rows)
test=# \l
List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding | Collation | Ctype |
Access privileges
-----------------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------
template0 | postgres | UTF8 | es_MX.UTF-8 | es_MX.UTF-8 |
=c/postgres +
template1 | postgres | UTF8 | es_MX.UTF-8 | es_MX.UTF-8 |
postgres=CTc/postgres+
test | dragon | UTF8 | es_MX.UTF-8 | es_MX.UTF-8 |


In the linux box all works fine, so I think the problem is something
particular to Mac,
The Mac OS X version is 10.7.4.
Darwin Users-iMac.local 11.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.0: Mon Apr 9
19:32:15 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1699.26.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

and the postgres version is 9.0.8.

Can Anybody help me with my problem?

Thanks in advance,
Angel

=?ISO-8859-1?B?QW5nZWwgWvrxaWdh?= <junior (AT) ciencias (DOT) unam.mx> writes:
FWIW, I cannot reproduce that as stated on my own Mac. I suspect though
that the problem is not with Postgres per se but with your terminal
window. If you're using Terminal, check the encoding setting in
Preferences ... Settings, and also look at Preferences ... Encodings.
You'll probably have trouble unless Terminal is using the same encoding
that psql thinks the client_encoding is.

regards, tom lane


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