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From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
To: Hiroshi Saito <saito(at)inetrt(dot)skcapi(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: "Serguei A(dot) Mokhov" <mokhov(at)cs(dot)concordia(dot)ca>, Ângelo Marcos Rigo <angelo_rigo(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)br>, pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re:
Date: 2003-10-01 17:33:32
Message-ID: 3F7B0FEC.4010707@pse-consulting.de
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Hiroshi Saito wrote:

>From: "Andreas Pflug" <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
>
>
>
>>Serguei A. Mokhov wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I think I have a similar issue... A pgAdmin III user contacted me with the
>>>question why they can't see the data in Russian and how to to solve the
>>>problem. I queried them for more information. I think their data must be
>>>encoded in some other encoding (e.g. KOI8-R) and when it gets to the
>>>client side, it's not converted.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>This is correctly diagnosed, non-ascii data in a SQL_ASCII encoded
>>database will not be shown because the server doesn't know how to encode
>>it in Unicode.
>>
>>This is fixed for HEAD and BRANCH.
>>
>>
>
>No.
>Server encoding as below.
>

This is not suitable for non-ascii chars, because the upper bit will be
chopped off (ascii->utf8), effectively destroying the string, or
converted to a bogus char (xx), effectively destroying the string.

Regards,
Andreas

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