Re: Localized error messages, wrong charset

Hi Kenneth,

Kenneth Lundin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i'm coding a project in C# / VS2008 and i'm using postgres/ODBC for
> database connectivity. Everthing works fine except for one tiny detail,
> and that is that i'm having trouble with OdbcExceptions and the Message
> property. It seems that the Message is not in the expected charset since
> all swedish characters are turned into box-like characters when they are
> displayed in a normal MessageBox control. I'm not sure which charset
> windows is using internally since that is sort of invisible to the
> programmer, but i would have assumed it is using some sort of unicode
> strings.
>
> Anyway, either the OdbcException.Message property does not return a
> UTF-8 string, OR it does return a UTF-8 string and Windows can not use
> that (but I think it is the first alternative, because if it would have
> returned UTF-8, there would have been several box-like characters per
> "real" character, and currently there is a one-to-one match).
>
> Everywhere else, unicode/UTF-8 strings works beautifully, in Sorting,
> LIKE, ILIKE etc throughout the application, and it also looks correctly
> when i'm looking at the data using pgAdmin, so it's only the error
> messages that does not work.

Could you send me directly the Mylog output ?

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue