Re: encoding: ODBC, createdb

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 10:00:21AM +0900, Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
> Karel Zak wrote:
> >
> > I found some other things:
> >
> > - ODBC -- here is some multibyte stuff too. Why ODBC code don't use
> > pg_wchar.h where is all defined? In odbc/multibyte.h is again defined
> > all encoding identificators.
> >
> > IMHO we can use for ODBC same solution as for libpq and compile it
> > with encname.c file too.
>
> ODBC under Windows needs no source/header files in PostgreSQL
> other than in src/interfaces/odbc. It's not preferable for
> psqlodbc driver to be sensitive about other PostgreSQL changes
> because the driver has to be able to talk multiple versions of
> PostgreSQL servers. In fact the current driver could talk to
> any server whose version >= 6.2(according to a person).
> As for pg_wchar.h I'm not sure if it could be an exception
> and we could expect for the maintainer to take care of ODBC.
> If I were he, I would hate it.

In the odbc/multibyte.h is

if (strstr(str, "%27SJIS%27") || strstr(str, "'SJIS'") ||
strstr(str, "'sjis'"))

..and same line for BIG5

I add here new names 'Shift_JIS' and 'Big5' only.

Karel

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