What is the column definition in Postgres?

It's a long shot, but I ask because:

  1. But the first time it goes wrong is when the business name is: "1-6 CH
+APMANΓÇÖS END MANAGEMENT COMPANY LIMITED"

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  2. the data arrives correctly in Postgres as '1-6 Chapman's End Managemen
+t.

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  3. Clearly, Postgres has stored it differently from how it matches it wit
+h select when there are alphabetic diacritics in the string (actually
+ it's character varying of length 256 in Postgres).

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Which immediately makes me think of VARCHARvs. NVARCHAR from the SQL Server space. Is there something in Postgres that needs doing to handle Unicode?

In reply to Re: Matching alphabetic diacritics with Perl and Postgresql by marinersk
in thread Matching alphabetic diacritics with Perl and Postgresql by anonymized user 468275

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