Re: problems accessing utf8 encoded databases

Hi.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mija Lee" <mija(at)scharp(dot)org>

> Hi:
>
> I'm new to this list and to postgres, so hopefully this won't sound like a
> stupid question. We are trying to connect from sas 9.13 service pack 3 to a
> postgres database version 8.2.4. We are able to do so without any problems when
> the databases are sql-ascii encoded, but get
>
> ERROR: CLI error trying to establish connection: [unixODBC]client encoding
> mismatch
>
> I'm able to connect to the same server, different databases that are not UTF-8
> encoded. I have UNICODE=UTF8 as a line in the odbc.ini. We are calling the sas9
> program with a utf-8 encoding option. T
>
> We are using 8.00.0100, but from what I've read it looks like utf-8 support
> started in version 7.1. I didn't install the driver myself, but is there
> something special I need to do to get utf-8 working with the odbc driver?
>
> Mija

Um, Although the version of the driver with which you use me may have a problem,
it thinks that support is difficult....Would you use our new driver, supposing it is
possible?
It does not reproduce your problem.
http://winpg.jp/~saito/psqlODBC/psqlODBC_use_ASCII.png

We were preparing the now newest release. It is Version 08.02.0500. please see,
http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/odbc/versions/

Sorry, the newest official announcement was preparing us...

Regards,
Hiroshi Saito