Re: [ODBC] pgAdmin2 UTF-8 support

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Michel POURE [mailto:jm(dot)poure(at)freesurf(dot)fr]
> Sent: 25 February 2002 08:39
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] [ODBC] pgAdmin2 UTF-8 support
>
>
> Le Lundi 25 Février 2002 09:29, Dave Page a écrit :
> > SET CLIENT_ENCODING Latin1;
> > INSERT INTO table_foo (field_bar) VALUES ('é'); SELECT
> field_bar FROM
> > table_foo WHERE field_bar='é';
>
> In case of an UTF-8 database,
> - schema queries should always be sent in Latin1.
> - SQL highlightbox should allow to choose client encoding on
> the fly in a
> combo.
>
> How do we query current client encoding?

SHOW CLIENT_ENCODING;

However the result is returned as a NOTICE message from the backend so we'd
have to do it via low level ODBC API calls (checkout how EXPLAIN works for
an example).

/D