Re: BUG #5010: perl iconv function returns ? character

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Lampa <lampacz(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #5010: perl iconv function returns ? character
Date: 2009-09-05 23:03:10
Message-ID: 9258.1252191790@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Lampa<lampacz(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> function my_ascii2 is defined:
>> CREATE FUNCTION my_ascii2(text) RETURNS text AS $$ use strict; use
>> Text::Iconv; my $conv = Text::Iconv->new("UTF8", "ASCII//TRANSLIT"); return
>> $conv->convert($_[0]); $$ LANGUAGE plperlu;
>>
>> 8.3.x version works perfectly, 8.4.0 problem

> I can't reproduce this on 8.4.0 or CVS HEAD. I think that whatever
> problem you have here is not a PostgreSQL bug.

I suspect that function will only work as desired in a database with
UTF8 server_encoding. Maybe the problem is the 8.4 database is set up
with some other encoding?

regards, tom lane

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