Re: UTF-8 encoding failure

Unfortunately there are encoding problems on my machine. I'm getting this output:

Testing with encoding UTF-8:
PQfname(pResult, 4) returned incorrect field name.
PQfname(pResult, 5) returned incorrect field name.
PQfname(pResult, 6) returned incorrect field name.

Testing with encoding SJIS:
Query failed with error:
ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xe59eff
HINT: This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match the encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by "client_encoding".

Instead of a Japanese OS, I used an English (UK) OS and set the system locale to Japanese, but that should be good enough I think.
I also used a new install of PostgreSQL, with only the PostGIS module added.

Okay, I find it difficult to imagine that a bug like this would not have been found before. But if it works fine on your machines, why doesn't it work on my machine?

Regards,

Martin Schäfer
Principal Software Engineer
Cadcorp
Computer Aided Development Corporation Ltd.
1 Heathcock Court, London, WC2R 0NT
martin(dot)schaefer(at)cadcorp(dot)com
www.cadcorp.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Takahiro Itagaki [mailto:itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp]
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 3:07 AM
> To: Martin Schäfer; Hiroshi Saito
> Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [BUGS] UTF-8 encoding failure
>
> "Hiroshi Saito" <z-saito(at)guitar(dot)ocn(dot)ne(dot)jp> wrote:
> > Probably it is not a bug.
> >
> > Testing with encoding UTF-8:
> > NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence
> "蝗帛ｮ誉gid_seq" for serial column "蝗帛ｮ・gid"
> > Testing with encoding SJIS:
> > NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence
> "四宗_gid_seq" for serial column "四宗.gid"
>
> > From: "Martin Schafer" <Martin(dot)Schaefer(at)cadcorp(dot)com>
> > - UTF8: does not return the same column name used to create
> the table.
>
> Yeah, there are no encoding problems in libpq and postgres,
> but you need to print NOTICE messages in the same codepage
> with your console.
> You probably need to replace routines to display NOTICE
> messages in libpq.
> PQsetNoticeReceiver() would be a help.
>
> Or, you could just change the codepage of your console to UTF-8.
> However, there is a known problem in Windows console that console with
> UTF-8 codepage cannot display any kanji characters. I'm not
> sure what we can do to fix it ... some font settings in the registory?
>
> Regards,
> ---
> Takahiro Itagaki
> NTT Open Source Software Center
>
>
>
>
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