Re: Unicode in PGAdmin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tino Wildenhain [mailto:tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de]
> Sent: 10 December 2002 20:43
> To: pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: [pgadmin-support] Unicode in PGAdmin
>
>
> Hi,
>
> what about unicode support in pgadmin? Sure,
> one can set client_encoding to iso8859-1 or
> so, but then you can't handle different charsets
> at the same time. My understanding is there is
> a unicode-aware odbc driver already and
> VB should also handle unicode like other
> windows applications.
> Dave, do you think this would have a deep impact
> on pgadmin source?

Hi Tino,

Contrary to what Microsoft say, VB doesn't support Unicode in any useful
way. Whilst the core language does, none of the UI components (controls)
do. The answer is to use the controls that ship with MS Office, though
as Microsoft point out, that means all users need an Office licence,
which is something I'm not about to require of people.

We are now working on pgAdmin III which is written in C++, and will
eventually support Unicode.

Regards, Dave.