Re: Re: A bug with pgsql 7.1/jdbc and non-ascii (8-bit) chars?

On 04 May 2001 10:29:50 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> > With regards to your specific problem, my guess is that you haven't
> > created you database with the proper character set for the data you are
> > storing in it. I am guessing you simply used the default SQL Acsii
> > character set for your created database and therefore only the first 127
> > characters are defined. Any characters above 127 will be returned by
> > java as ?'s.
>
> Does this happen with a non-multibyte-compiled database? If so, I'd
> argue that's a serious bug in the JDBC code: it makes JDBC unusable
> for non-ASCII 8-bit character sets, unless one puts up with the overhead
> of MULTIBYTE support.

I fought with this for a few days. The solution is to dump the database
and create a new database with the correct encoding.

MULTIBYTE is not neccesary I just set the type to LATIN1 and it works
fine.

Queries even work on accentuated caracters!!!

I have a demo database for those interested

Cheers

Tony Grant

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