| From: | Herouth Maoz <herouth(at)oumail(dot)openu(dot)ac(dot)il> |
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| To: | Peter Mount <petermount(at)it(dot)maidstone(dot)gov(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [INTERFACES] JDBC and character sets |
| Date: | 1999-06-22 15:45:16 |
| Message-ID: | l03130305b3955f839584@[147.233.159.109] |
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At 18:22 +0300 on 22/06/1999, David Warnock wrote:
> > If I understand this correctly, if I make sure the driver converts the
> > strings (in the correct methods) into UTF-8, then unicode support will
> > work?
> >
> > I'm wondering, as I haven't delved into Unicode with the driver yet. If
> > this is the case, it will be a simple thing to implement.
>
> Ooooh yes please. This would be a great thing for us. If you need any
> help testing please tell us.
Well, what if we haven't compiled the system for unicode? Make sure the
driver doesn't kill us in such a case. We use ISO8859-8 for our data. If
you were to convert it to utf-8, it would certainly not work as we expect.
Especially if the database is not compiled for unicode.
Herouth
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Herouth Maoz, Internet developer.
Open University of Israel - Telem project
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