Re: ODBC & character encoding

Hi Iain,
Thank you again for your reply.
It's good to know that things works for people almost in my situation :-).

I am not surprise that there is no problem with Shift-Jis, since "SET
client_encoding= 'SJIS';" works fine on a EUC_JP database.

But "SET client_encoding= 'UNICODE';" does not work with 7.1.... and I feel
really stuck because of that...

>When you install the postgres ODBC driver it actually contains 3 drivers,
>which one are you using?
I tried the PostgreSQL 8.00. and PostgreSQL Unicode beta but both of them
try to do "SET client_encoding= 'UNICODE'"...

In my case, I really need to convert the encoding before sending it to
Postgres... but I don't know if it is possible.

>So far I've never had to pay much attention to client encoding...
Lucky man :-)

Cheers,
Ben
----- Original Message -----
From: Iain
To: Layet Benjamin ; pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [ODBC] ODBC & character encoding

Hi Benjamin,

I don't have direct experience of your exact situation, but I use a 7.1
database via ODBC. The difference is that the client is not unicode, it's
plain old windows shift-JIS and that works fine iff you use the unicode
support odbc driver. When you install the postgres ODBC driver it actually
contains 3 drivers, which one are you using?

> Can the ODBC driver convert the query string from UTF8 to EUC_JP before
sending it to the database server ?

I'm not sure...

> Can the ODBC driver take EUC_JP string as input ? (then I would 'just'
have to figure out how to send EUC_JP stings from C#...)

I dunno about that either, but it certainly accepts shift-JIS which is the
native encoding for windows.

So far I've never had to pay much attention to client encoding (with the
notable exception of getting input data from a web application) as the
clients and drivers seem to work everything out by themselves.

Regards
Iain

----- Original Message -----
From: Layet Benjamin
To: Iain ; pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: [ODBC] ODBC & character encoding

Hi,
Thank you Iain for your quick reply.
But unfortunately this did not solve the problem, 7.1 does not support
this conversion neither yet. (7.3 and 7.4 do):

SET client_encoding='UNICODE';
ERROR: Conversion between UNICODE and EUC_JP is not supported

In theory, I have 3 possible places to convert UTF8 to EUC_JP:
- 1 inside postgres
- 2 inside ODBC
- 3 inside C#

1

C# ODBC
Postgres 7.1
Utf8 l =============> l l =====>l
UTF8->EUC_JP
(possible->Unicode) l UTF8 l l UTF8 l
______________________l (or Unicode) l________________l
l_______________

2
C# ODBC
Postgres 7.1
Utf8 l =============> l UTF8->EUC_JP l =====>l
(possible->Unicode) l UTF8 l l EUC_JPl
______________________l (or Unicode) l________________l
l_______________

3

C# ODBC
Postgres 7.1
UTF8->EUC_JP l =============> l l =====>l
(possible->Unicode) l EUC_JP l l EUC_JPl
______________________l l________________l
l_______________

Number 1 seem to be the normal solution, but it does not work with 7.1.
I would like to know if number 2 or 3 are possible:
so,
- Can the ODBC driver convert the query string from UTF8 to EUC_JP
before sending it to the database server ?
or
- Can the ODBC driver take EUC_JP string as input ? (then I would 'just'
have to figure out how to send EUC_JP stings from C#...)

Help extremely needed...
Thank you !

Benjamin