POSTGRES foreign languages

Question

I have problem with directly inserting foreign characters like \"ó,č,ĕ,ř\" characters into database. dont working even with my php frontend to be sure there is no transformation

Answer 1

If your shell is in latin1 encoding, as it appears from the comments, this will fix it:

set client_encoding = 'latin1';

If you don't want to change the client's system encoding you can change the default in postgresql.conf

client_encoding = latin1

Or change PHP's default character encoding:

default_charset = "utf-8";

Do it also in the Apache, or whatever http server you are using, config:

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8