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To: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
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Subject: Re: [SQL] psql on FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p2 and greek (iso8859-7) chars
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From: Manuel Sugawara <masm@fciencias.unam.mx>
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Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that psql on FreeBSD (i checked also fbsd 4.5 with pgsql port
> installed)
> does not accept 8bit iso8859-* chars > 128 (where the greek chars are).
> 
> In linux that works ok, and i can update/insert/select values
> using greek strings.
> 
> I know it must be a fbsd/locale issue, but it would be nice
> if someone knew something about it.

If pgsql is using readline adding

  set meta-flag on
  set convert-meta off
  set output-meta on

to /etc/inputrc or ~/.inputrc could help. See readline(3).

Regards,
Manuel.