Re: odbc problem on Japanese windows machine

Am Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007 14.40:22 schrieb Sofer, Yuval:
> Hi,
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> I am trying to use postgres odbc driver on windows Japanese machine, to
> test connection to a remote postgres database. The database has latin1
> encoding.
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> Connection tests to databases with latin1 encoding fail with this error
> message:
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> fatal: conversion between SJIS and LATIN1 is not supported

In the server manual on chapter 21.2.3 you can find the supported conversions.

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> Connection tests to databases with utf8 encoding succeed.
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> I checked both server source and odbc driver source and saw that the
> message comes from postgres server code.
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> It seems that the postgres odbc sends SJIS characters to the latin1
> database and it cannot convert.
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> I know that the next command retrieves with the same error:
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> alter database <db_name> set client_encoding="SJIS"

According to the manual this is supposed to fail actually.

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> Is there any switch in the code to bypass local machine encoding?
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> Why does it send Japanese encoding?

If I rember correctly the ODBC-Driver does not know or care about the used
encoding. So it is up to the application to send the desired client_encoding
to the server.
The only way to bridge from Latin1 encoded Server to SJIS client seems
actually the utf8 encoding. So the application would need to be capable to
deal with utf8. In the connection settings of the ODBC-Driver you could set
the client_encoding to utf8 if the application does not have this capability.
Otherwise the application will anyway overwrite the setting.

Best regards
Ivo

>
> Postgres odbc driver is not Japanese application. For what the
> conversion is needed?
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> Is there any way to overcome this problem?
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> Steps to reproduce error message:
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> 1. Put postgres odbc drivers (psqlodbc30a.dll and psqlodbc35w.dll) under
> c:\windows\system32
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> 2. Update machine registry with next values:
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> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBCINST.INI\ODBC Drivers]
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> "PostgreSQL ANSI"="Installed"
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> "PostgreSQL Unicode"="Installed"
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> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBCINST.INI\PostgreSQL ANSI]
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> "APILevel"="1"
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> "ConnectFunctions"="YYN"
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> "Driver"="c:\windows\system32\PSQLODBC30A.DLL"
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> "DriverODBCVer"="03.00"
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> "FileUsage"="0"
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> "Setup"=" c:\windows\system32\PSQLODBC30A.DLL"
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> "SQLLevel"="1"
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> "UsageCount"=dword:00000001
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> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC\ODBCINST.INI\PostgreSQL Unicode]
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> "APILevel"="1"
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> "ConnectFunctions"="YYN"
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> "Driver"=" c:\windows\system32\PSQLODBC35W.DLL"
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> "DriverODBCVer"="03.51"
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> "FileUsage"="0"
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> "Setup"=" c:\windows\system32\PSQLODBC35W.DLL"
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> "SQLLevel"="1"
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> "UsageCount"=dword:00000001
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> 3. Create datasource and test connection to latin1 encoding database:
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> Settings -> administrative tools -> data source (ODBC)
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> And then add system data source with postgres driver. Configure this
> data source to
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> connect to latin1 postgres database.
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> Thanks,
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> Yuval Sofer
> BMC Software
> CTM&D Business Unit
>
> DBA Team
> 972-52-4286-282
> yuval_sofer(at)bmc(dot)com <mailto:yuval_sofer(at)bmc(dot)com>