Re: [SL] Trouble entering unicode characters

[Stuart L. <sl...@cc...>]

On 木, 2008-02-14 at 20:00 +0100, "Rolf Stöckli (tokon)" wrote:
> 1. Are you sure your database supports unicode? Log in with pqsl to your 
> db and type "show client_encoding;".

Here's what I get:

show client_encoding;
 client_encoding 
-----------------
 UNICODE
(1 row)


> 2. I made some tests with an UTF database and wasn't able to create 
> correct PDF outputs. I'm not completely sure, but it seems to me that 
> you have much less trouble if you use the Latin1 charset if you need 
> French characters.

I would, but I don't know how to enter such characters. I can use my
input method editor (scim) to input unicode directly, but I don't know
how to enter Latin1.
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