Re: Numeric datatype doesn't match those from older driver version ?

From: "Adam M" <gnuman1(at)gmail(dot)com>
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Cc: "Hiroshi Inoue" <inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Numeric datatype doesn't match those from older driver version ?
Date: 2008-12-18 05:33:56
Message-ID: 84b37b360812172133k2188674aj71721f5a68ea12c2@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Adam M <gnuman1(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I did not know that! I've always *assumed* that ASCII version was for
>> ASCII databases only. ASCII generally means 7-bit encoding, not 8-bit
>> like UTF-8.
>
> ANSI, not ASCII in this case. And feel free to blame Microsoft for the
> convention :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_art

I do blame Microsoft if they are calling UTF-8 ANSI? To me ANSI was
back in the 1980s with BBSs and extended ASCII codes. ANSI terminals
allowed scrolling around, etc..

Thanks for the clarification!

- Adam

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