Re: problems accessing utf8 encoded databases

Thanks for the responses. I have downloaded the new driver & will ask IT to
install.

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>From: "Hiroshi Saito" <z-saito(at)guitar(dot)ocn(dot)ne(dot)jp>
>To: "Mija Lee" <mija(at)scharp(dot)org>, <pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: [ODBC] problems accessing utf8 encoded databases
>Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:08:33 +0900
>
>Hi.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mija Lee" <mija(at)scharp(dot)org>
>
>> Hi:
>>
>> I'm new to this list and to postgres, so hopefully this won't sound like a
>> stupid question. We are trying to connect from sas 9.13 service pack 3 to a
>> postgres database version 8.2.4. We are able to do so without any problems
when
>> the databases are sql-ascii encoded, but get
>>
>> ERROR: CLI error trying to establish connection: [unixODBC]client encoding
>> mismatch
>>
>> I'm able to connect to the same server, different databases that are not
UTF-8
>> encoded. I have UNICODE=UTF8 as a line in the odbc.ini. We are calling the
sas9
>> program with a utf-8 encoding option. T
>>
>> We are using 8.00.0100, but from what I've read it looks like utf-8 support
>> started in version 7.1. I didn't install the driver myself, but is there
>> something special I need to do to get utf-8 working with the odbc driver?
>>
>> Mija
>
>Um, Although the version of the driver with which you use me may have a
problem,
>it thinks that support is difficult....Would you use our new driver, supposing
it is
>possible?
>It does not reproduce your problem.
>http://winpg.jp/~saito/psqlODBC/psqlODBC_use_ASCII.png
>
>We were preparing the now newest release. It is Version 08.02.0500. please see,
>http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/odbc/versions/
>
>Sorry, the newest official announcement was preparing us...
>
>Regards,
>Hiroshi Saito