Re:

Quoting Joel Seguillon <seguij(at)free(dot)fr>:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to use JDBC driver for postgres but have a problem with
> UNICODE.
> I can insert UNICODE values but I can't compare them unless they are
> under
> 00ff...
>
> When I try to compare values that are over 00ff always return true :
> // inserting a Unicode value in the database
> smt.executeUpdate("insert into test values ('\u0123')");
>
> // not the same unicode value selects the same line !!!
> smt.executeQuery("select * from test where test = '\u0223'");
>
> (but '\u0064' and '\0034' are not the same :))

As executeQuery & executeUpdate pass the query to the backend without any
modifications (well a few occasionally but not in this case), this looks like a
backend type of problem.

Forwarding to the hackers list.

> I compiled the postgres.jar with the jdbc2 and the 7.0.3 version,
> compiled
> postgresql with --enable-multibyte and created my database with -E
> UNICODE.
>
> I also use the Properties class to connect to my base to specifie that i
> wan't
> to use Utf-8.

The key is "charSet" case sensitive...

Peter

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