Re: Problems with charsets, investigated...

Alexandre Aufrere wrote:

>>Can you dump out the *characters* of the problem Strings you get from
>>the driver, one character at a time, and see what numeric values you're
>>getting and whether they are the right UTF-16 values you expect? i.e.
>>
>> for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); ++i) {
>> System.out.println(" offset " + i + " value " + (int)str.charAt(i));
>> }
>>
>>Can you provide a pg_dump (LATIN1 encoding I assume) plus sample
>>testcase that shows off the problem?
>
>
> well, i'll investigate more tomorrow, at work, and try to set up a simple
> test program to try to understand deeper what's going on.
> currently, we see the problem by doing a debug output (simply a
> System.out) from Enhydra's DODS (which is the relational-object layer).
>>From what i've seen in DODS (maybe, though, i didn't dig enough), DODS
> does not manipulate Strings coming from the JDBC driver when they are of
> type VARCHAR, therefore it shouldn't be the source of the problem.
> about the charAt thing, it is as well not correct, i tried...

Can you show me the charAt output for some sample data that shows the
problem? (and the corresponding string as it's stored in the database)

-O