Don't know the answer to your question exactly but how about 
transforming all user input into something like unicode/UTF-8 (or 
UTF-16) and *then* putting it into the DB?

That way all the DB input has the same charset.

Jc

Alberto Serra wrote:

> Привет!
> 
> Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
> 
>> Alberto Serra wrote:
>>
>>> I hope you mean one charset per language. Otherwise I can just cancel 
>>> POstgres from my list of usable engines. But yes, it can't be just one.
>>
>>
>> I'm no pgsql expert but I think that yes, it will only accept input in 
>> one charset. But for charsets that use only 8-bits I think you can 
>> insert data that is in more than one charset.
>>
>> But for charsets that use more than 8-bits I think pgsql actually 
>> checks that the input is in the charset the DB expects it to be in.
> 
> 
> Can anyone say something about this? It would mean that a content 
> repository ported to Postgres would not be able to hold chinese, korean 
> and japanese content at the same time. Quite a big minus, I'd say.
> 
> Any chinese, korean or japanese programmers on this list? (I put the 
> countries list in alphabetical order, no personal preferences implied).
> 
> Пока
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