RE: [SQL] trrouble inserting stuff like é

Looking deeper into the matter (which I admit I am a bit ignorant on) I
think you hit the nail on the head.
Coming from MSSQL which is using Latin I may have to use Latin1.
It works ok as SQL_ASCHII, but lower does not work, so hopefully using
LATIN1 I can store the chars and also get lower to work etc.

Thanks so much for the help.

I have been very confused as I could create a Unicode db and even save the
French values using pgadmin or .net connection, but the odbc would not work.
I hope it works ok with the LATIN1.

-----Original Message-----
From: Aarni Ruuhimäki [mailto:aarni(at)kymi(dot)com]
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 10:25 AM
To: Joel Fradkin
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SQL] trrouble inserting stuff like é

Hi,

I use LATIN1 encoding and it works fine with accented characters. So try
creating your db with -E LATIN1 switch. Or even initdb -E LATIN1 if you
wan't
your dbs default to that.

Best regards,

Aarni

On Friday 18 February 2005 16:59, you wrote:
> I wrote a program to read my database (from MSSQL) and write it to
> Postgres. It appeared to work great the first time I ran it, but the
> database was SQL_ASCII (It defaulted to this when I created it from the
> command line on the linux box using createdb.
>
> When I tried to restore it I used PGAdmin on my XP machine which created a
> Unicode database.
> I was unable to restore the SQL_ASCII to the Unicode, so I re-ran my
import
> on a Unicode database.
> Now I get all kinds of errors from the .net program (which I have write
out
> the actual SQL on each error).
> When I cut and paste the SQL into PGADMIN it runs ok, so it only gives an
> error using .net ODBC.
>
> Any one have any clues for me to follow?
>
> Here is an example of a SQL line that did not run in .net.
>
> insert into
> tblSuspectedActivity(ClientNum,ID,Value,IsDeleted,PresentationID)
> values('FREN',4,'Paiement à
> account',False,2)
>
> Joel Fradkin
>  
>
>
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