Re: problem with to_ascii() function in version 8.3.3

Pavel Arnošt wrote:
>>> insert into chartest (c) values ('á');
>>> select to_ascii(encode(convert_to(c,'LATIN9'),'escape'),'LATIN9') from chartest;
>>> to_ascii
>>> ----------
>>> \341
>>
>> What answer do you get to the following two SQL statements:
>>
>> SHOW server_encoding;
>> SHOW client_encoding;
>
> both commands shows "UTF8". Changing client encoding with "\encoding
> LATIN9" does not have any effect on to_ascii command (I don't know if
> it should have).

Strange; I have the same settings and it works here.

Could you run the following queries and compare with my results:

test=> select ascii(c) from chartest;
ascii
-------
225
(1 row)

test=> select encode(convert_to(c,'LATIN9'),'hex') from chartest;
encode
--------
e1
(1 row)

test=> select ascii(to_ascii(encode(convert_to(c,'LATIN9'),'escape'),'LATIN9')) from chartest;
ascii
-------
97
(1 row)

Yours,
Laurenz Albe