I hava successfully inserted some Chinese strings into a test table from the default "Monetdb SQL Client" shortcut created by the windows  installer, and  mclient.exe can show the Chinese strings correctlly. But when I start a new mclient session from a normal command line using the following:
mclient.exe -lsql -d demo -E XXXX
I have tried  -E utf-8, -E GBK, -E GB2312 with the -E option, they all can't show Chinese characters, what's the problem?
 
What charset does the default "MonetDB SQL Client" bat use?
 
BTW, using the "create schema default character set XXXX" statement we can specify a character set, what is it used for?


> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:16:09 +0100
> From: Fabian.Groffen@cwi.nl
> To: monetdb-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [MonetDB-users] What code page does Monetdb currentlly use?
>
> On 28-12-2008 22:30:10 +0800, 小波 顾 wrote:
> > We are Chinese users, and hoping Monetdb will support multi-byte
> > character encodings like UTF-8 and GBK.
>
> MonetDB is fully UTF-8, and does not support any other encoding than
> that.
>
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