Re: pgAdmin2 Japanese display

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hiroshi Inoue [mailto:Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp]
> Sent: 26 February 2002 05:51
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: jm(dot)poure(at)freesurf(dot)fr; pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org;
> pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] pgAdmin2 Japanese display
>
>
> Dave Page wrote:
> >
> > Jean-Michel POURE allegedly said:
> > > Le Lundi 25 F騅rier 2002 17:19, Hiroshi Inoue a 馗rit :
> > >> SET CLIENT_ENCODING to 'SJIS'
> > >> Strictly speaking, you need a multibyte psqlodbc driver
> > >> to handle SJIS(Shift Jis) properly.
> > >
> > > 2) Is the multibyte psqlodbc driver a separate driver?
> What are the
> > > settings to switch odbc to SJIS?
> >
> > Yes it is - it's not the one we distribute from
> odbc.postgresql.org or
> > with pgAdmin.
> >
> > Hiroshi, will the multibyte version work OK with Latin encodings? I
> > suppose what I'm asking is, should we distribute the
> multibyte version
> > by default or would it break things for people that are not using
> > multibyte encodings?
>
> According to Eiji Tokuya who introduced the multibyte
> support, the multibyte version has no problem with single
> byte encodings.

Would you have any objections if we only distributed that version from now
on then?

BTW, I assume it would compile *properly* on a non-multibyte system... or
not?

Regards, Dave.