Re: [INTERFACES] JDBC driver should use database encoding

From: Peter T Mount <peter(at)retep(dot)org(dot)uk>
To: Martin Kuba <makub(at)inet(dot)cz>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] JDBC driver should use database encoding
Date: 1999-05-17 17:53:16
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.04.9905171852050.3493-100000@maidast.retep.org.uk
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On Fri, 14 May 1999, Martin Kuba wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Postgres 6.4.2 has multibyte support, so database can be
> in one of several encodings. But the JDBC driver uses
> for fetching data this method:
>
> src/interfaces/jdbc/postgresql/ResultSet.java line 164:
> return new String(this_row[columnIndex - 1]);
>
> It means that not the database internal encoding, but
> the default encoding of client JVM will be used for
> converting 8-bit characters to 16-bit UNICODE characters.
>
> In postgres 6.5beta is the same code, so I think next
> release will have the same bug.
>
> Is it difficult to get the database encoding and use
> it for converting bytes to Strings ? Is anybody planning
> to do it ? If not, how can I do it ?

I haven't had chance to look at Unicode support yet, but if you can think
of a way of implementing it without breaking 8bit support, I'd be
interested.

Peter

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