Re: JDBC and Accents

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:37:48PM +0200, Tony Grant wrote:
> On 27 Apr 2001 14:26:14 +0200, Marko Kreen wrote:
>
> >
> > What is your database encoding?
> >
> > You can insert whatever stuff you want into db and
> > psql displays it fine - it does not care what it is.
> >
> > But JDBC 7.1 does use database encoding for understanding
> > stuff it gets and translating it to Java strings. So if your
> > db encoding is SQL_ASCII but data is LATIN1 you are screwed.
> > Same with data in LATIN1 and db in UNICODE. etc...
>
> How do I set it?

initdb --ecnoding ENC sets the template* encoding, this gets
used when you dont specify the encoding in db creation
time.

CREATE DATABASE xx WITH ECCODING='ENC';
createdb xx --encoding ENC
same thing, sets the new database encoding.

and there is commands
SET CLIENT_ENCODING='ENC';
SET SERVER_ENCODING='ENC';

which set the encoding for one session. SERVER_ENCODING is
r/o though. CLIENT_ENCODING Im not so sure, probably
commands the server to do on-the-fly encoding conversion
for client. I expect this needs correct database encoding...

> Searching docs for "database encoding" gives:
>
> Sorry, but search returned no results.

It _is_ documented somewhere but I cant do much
surfing at the moment coz Iam sitting behind a 80x25 Video
Terminal...

>
> Is this the locale value that can be passed at start up? I will document
> this in my Ultradev - Posgresql HOWTO because it is JDBC related.

Look in docs help for above commands.

--
marko