Re: Hebrew support

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Michel POURE [mailto:jm(dot)poure(at)freesurf(dot)fr]
> Sent: 19 February 2002 11:50
> To: Dave Page; pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org; Dannyl(at)barak(dot)net(dot)il
> Cc: pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Hebrew support
>
>
> Le Mardi 19 Février 2002 10:16, Dave Page a écrit :
> > Yeah, but as Danny says he can display Hebrew from PostgreSQL in MS
> > Excel, surely that proves that it's not all the ODBC driver?
>
> OK. UTF-8 is plain ASCII coded on 1, 2 or 3 caracters. If MS
> Excel is UTF-8
> compatible and smart enough, it should display data. I see no
> problem in
> this. Same as for Access 2K.
>
> > My other thought was regarding the ODBC driver though -
> currently we
> > ship the non-multibyte one with pgAdmin (and that's what I
> package for
> > the ODBC
> > site) - would it help or hinder us if we shipped the
> Multibyte version (I'm
> > really in the dark here so I'm relying on your expertise :-) ).
>
> The only solution I see would be to convert UTF-8 to UCS-2 in
> VB with our own
> scripts. This ***might allow the grid to display UTF-8
> caracters. Whooo...

Hmm, that sounds like fun. :-)

Thanks anyway...

/D