Character Corruption / Encoding Question

["Bill Willits" <bwillits(at)cox(dot)net>]

We have just upgraded our phppgadmin client from v3.5 to v.4.1.3.  Now, when we view special characters in phppgadmin they are displayed incorrectly.  If we update the character field (to a special character), it will not store properly.  Our database encoding is SQL_ASCII.  The same operations work fine in v.3.5 of phppgadmin and with pgadmin III. 

 

Obviously, this is a phppgadmin issue (and I have posted a question to them), but I am just curious what could have changed to cause it, and what if any workaround there would be outside of reverting to old version of phppgadmin or getting a patch.

 

Thanks

Bill Willits