umlauts for new users who speak other languages

[VonderHeidFab]

Change the first line in the Postgres SQL setup manual to: CREATE DATABASE netbox WITH ENCODING 'UTF8'TEMPLATE=template0;
so that umlauts in German are taken into account and no error message is generated.

[markkuleinio]

Can you be more specific? What error message are you receiving and in which phase?

I have lots of NetBox users that have umlauts (including myself) and I have no error messages in NetBox.

Markku Leiniö

[VonderHeidFab]

In our Netbox installation, the database is encoded using standard ASCII, which is not a problem for the installation. But as soon as you type in an umlaut äöü or ß and save the process, Django reports a database error that the database cannot do anything with the character and therefore cannot save it. I therefore suggest setting up the database using UTF8 as standard, as the required characters are available there. Markku Leiniö ***@***.***> schrieb am Mo., 29. Apr. 2024, 06:46:

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Can you be more specific? What error message are you receiving and in which phase? I have lots of NetBox users that have umlauts (including myself) and I have no error messages in NetBox. Markku Leiniö — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#15878 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AECYWVQJLECWUNEYJJUKS63Y7XGBRAVCNFSM6AAAAABG5JSKICVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43SRDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHM4TENJXG42DC> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.*** com>

[kkthxbye-code]

I therefore suggest setting up the database using UTF8 as
standard, as the required characters are available there.

This is the default on all modern Linux installs. Postgres gets the default encoding from LC_CTYPE, so it's uncommon to experience the issue you did.