Re: bytea char escaping

From: "Ivar" <ivar(at)lumisoft(dot)ee>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
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Subject: Re: bytea char escaping
Date: 2003-06-25 07:39:07
Message-ID: bdbjia$5tf$1@main.gmane.org
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If I encode bytes as utf8 I get right result.

I guess that uncicode odbc driver returns bytes as utf8, is it so ?

"Ivar" <ivar(at)lumisoft(dot)ee> wrote in message
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>
> Yes this is much clearer.
>
> I got this part working, but some some chars is handled wrong.
> I'm using 7.3.1 in windows.
>
> eg. alt 152 is handeld wrong.
>
> there is some encoding problems, any ideas ?
> "Joe Conway" <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> wrote in message
> news:3EF93DF4(dot)3030507(at)joeconway(dot)com(dot)(dot)(dot)
> Stephen Robert Norris wrote:
> > Well, no. What it says is that certain values must be escaped (but
> > doesn't say which ones). Then it says there are alternate escape
> > sequences for some values, which it lists.
> >
> > It doesn't say "The following table contains the characters which must
> > be escaped:", which would be much clearer (and actually useful).
>
> Attached documentation patch updates the wording for bytea input
> escaping, per complaint by Stephen Norris above.
>
> Please apply.
>
> Joe
>
>
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> 06:19:28 -0000 *************** *** 1062,1069 **** literal in an SQL
> statement. In general, to escape an octet, it is converted into the
> three-digit octal number equivalent of its decimal octet value, and
preceded
> by two ! backslashes. Some octet values have alternate escape sequences,
as
> ! shown in . --- 1062,1070 ---- literal in an SQL statement. In general,
to
> escape an octet, it is converted into the three-digit octal number
> equivalent of its decimal octet value, and preceded by two ! backslashes.
> contains the ! characters which must be escaped, and gives the alternate
> escape ! sequences where applicable.
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