Posts Tagged ‘extended characters’

Bytea, Varchar & 16 bit characters

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Pasting text from Word into a web form, shuttling it to the database makes for an interesting journey for your text.   I have found that some characters, such as double and single curly quotes, not present in 8-bit sets, make bytea columns do funny things.

In the one project, one of the clients writes his [...]