Re: pgtcl and umlaut

I'm not sure what version of Tcl are you using, but I guess it's a
general problem of Tcl >= 8.1. The only solution I could imagine so
far is down grading Tcl to 8.0.
--
Tatsuo Ishii

> I'm using postgresql 7.0.2 on a PC running Linux (Mandrake 7.2). I'm
> developing a application using the Tcl/Tk binding pgtcl (included in the
> postgresql distribution).
>
> I have problems with the german umlaut (ÄÖÜ): it is possible to insert and
> read strings containing umlaut letters in a pgtcl application, but when the
> database sorts the table, the sort order is wrong:
>
>  A Ä Ö Ü B C ...
>
> instead of
>
>  A Ä B C ... O Ö P ... U Ü V ...
>
> The database dump with otion -d (proper insert strings) prints
>
>  \303\204   for Ä
>  \303\226   for Ö
>  \303\234   for Ü
>
> I tried differend encodings in the database (UNICODE, LATIN1, SQL_ASCII) as
> well as in tcl (unicode, iso8859-1) but there was no impact on the sort
> result.
>
> You find a pgtcl script attached to this mail that demonstrates the problem.
> Before starting the script you have to create a database:
>
>   createdb -E UNICODE sort_umlaut
>
> then you have to run the script (pgtclsh must be installed in /usr/bin,
> otherwise edit the first line of the script):
>
>   chmod u+x problem.tcl
>   ./problem.tcl
>
> The script prints the sorted table. Afterwards you can print the contents of
> the database:
>
>   pg_dump -d sort_umlaut
>
> Maybe somebody has a solution for the problem ;-)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Gerd
>
> --
> Gerd Scheidhauer
> http://www.gerdscheidhauer.de
> phone:+49 721 722 34 16