Server Encoding and Client Encoding
Explore the concepts of server encoding and client encoding in PostgreSQL. Understand why UTF-8 is preferred over SQL_ASCII, how PostgreSQL manages encoding conversions, and the impact on data integrity and application compatibility. This lesson helps you configure encoding settings properly for effective data handling.
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Encoding
An encoding is a particular representation of characters in bits and bytes. In the ASCII encoding, the letter A is encoded as the 7-bits byte 1000001, 65 in decimal, or 41 in hexadecimal. All ...