Re: BUG #1564: special Character OleDB

On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:43:08AM +0000, Steinhaus, Harald wrote:

> using charset SQL_ASCII German special characters are correctly shown in
> pgAdminIII.
> In a WindowsForms Application using PgOleDb-1.0.0.19 these characters are
> shown as ? and removing the following character.

If you are using SQL_ASCII, you should not insert non-7-bit-ascii data.
If you do, you are responsible for whatever may happen with character
conversion; which means, it will work on some cases, but will fail on a
lot of others.

You should really declare the correct character set at creation time
(which depends on the locale you choose), and issue the correct "SET
client_encoding" command at execution time.

> (Using other charactersets didn't allow use batchimport when the file
> contains special characters

Probably that's because you didn't define the correct client_encoding.
See the thread at

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-03/msg00892.php

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