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   <H1>[Mageia-sysadm] postgresql database charset</H1>
    <B>Olivier Thauvin</B> 
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    <I>Mon Feb 21 15:55:48 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>* Michael Scherer (<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm">misc at zarb.org</A>) wrote:
&gt;<i> Hi, while looking at the list of database on alamut, I have seen that
</I>&gt;<i> some of them are in utf8, and some of them are in ascii, shouldn't it be
</I>&gt;<i> better to put everything in utf8 ?
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</I>&gt;<i> Can we do the conversion without trouble with dump and reload ?
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Changing the encoding is not really a problem, however, some issue can
appear if the application don't check the encoding of the data it want
to store. For instance invalid UTF-8 bytes can be stored in ascii, not
in utf8 database.

So I fear changing encoding may break some tools...

&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> ( and who is volunteer ? )
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Olivier Thauvin
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