Re: [JDBC] Re: [JDBC] é converted in Ã(c)

From: Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
Cc: Laurent Schweizer <laurent(dot)schweizer(at)peoplefone(dot)com>, "pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [JDBC] Re: [JDBC] é converted in Ã(c)
Date: 2013-02-08 23:01:12
Message-ID: CADK3HHJ-BhpTRxJGYVP5vx0tpy+HBdiQuh1UyNxBAG8w5FLvLA@mail.gmail.com
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The JDBC driver only knows one encoding. Are you using it to retrieve the
data as well ?

Dave Cramer

dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca
http://www.credativ.ca

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> wrote:

> Laurent Schweizer <laurent(dot)schweizer(at)peoplefone(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > I have an issue with special character like é.
>
> > I have as server postgres 9.2, I have created a new DB , encoding
> > utf8
> >
> > Client is a very simple test class that:
> > 1) update a varchar value
> > 2) read the same value and print them
> >
> > If I update the varchar with a special character like “é” the
> > value in the DB is correct ( I check them with another software )
> > but when I read them from my simple java class the value is not
> > correct and the é is converted in é
> >
> > I have added to the connection string the option:
> > ?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8
> >
> > And if I do a : "SHOW client_encoding;” I get UTF8
>
> It is behaving as though the client is using a character encoding
> other than UTF8 -- some sort of 8-bit encoding, probably. You must
> set client_encoding to match.
>
> -Kevin
>
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