Re: Big problem inserting Russian characters into Postgres

Edd,

Check the notes at http://lab.applinet.nl/postgresql-jdbc/#reading

for encoding issues

Dave
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 12:53, Edd Stanley wrote:
> I have never had a problem that has kept me stumped for so long. All I
> need to do is to simply use my Java application to insert and select
> Russian characters into the Postgres database. Every time I try to
> insert the Unicode characters into the DB, the table seems to only be
> populated with "??????" question mark characters. I am pretty sure that
> the database itself is configured correctly because I can insert Russian
> characters at the SQL command prompt. The database has been "configured"
> with its encoding as Unicode and it says this when I do "\encoding"
>
> Here is what I do and all I come up with is question marks:
>
>
> String URL =
> ("jdbc:postgresql://192.168.0.5:5432/russ?encoding=UNICODE");
> try {
> new org.postgresql.Driver();
> db = DriverManager.getConnection(URL, user, pwd);
> }
> catch (Exception e) { System.out.println("Couldn't connect to the
> database: " +e); }
> }
>
> String rus_word = "\u0424\u042F\u041B\u0414\u0416\u0436\u0434\u043B";
> //or
> String rus_word = "Ложка";
> String insert_stmt = ("INSERT INTO rus (russian) VALUES('" + rus_word +
> "')"); //Column type for "Russian" is text
> try {
> statement = db.createStatement();
> statement.execute(insert_stmt);
> }
> catch (Exception e) {
>::.
> }
>
> Shouldn't this be a very simple thing to do as to insert
> multibyte-characters into the database table? What am I forgetting?
>
> I am running Postgres version 7.2.1, JDK 1.3 using the Postgres JDBC 2.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Edd Stanley
> eddstanley @ mindspring . com
>