Re: Unicode in PGAdmin

Hi Dave,

--On Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2002 22:20 +0000 Dave Page
<dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:

>
>
>> -----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.

Ah ok. This sounds promising in the aspect of porting to
an "OS" ;)) Will you make it modular in a way porting
is possible? Will it be multithreaded? I've seen there
is native support for postgresql also as win32 libs, so
there should be no need to use ODBC in all circumstances
(For example to catch messages like psql does)

Regards
Tino