From: | Peter T Mount <peter(at)retep(dot)org(dot)uk> |
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To: | Martin Kuba <makub(at)inet(dot)cz> |
Cc: | pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [INTERFACES] JDBC driver should use database encoding |
Date: | 1999-05-17 20:28:32 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.04.9905172125320.3493-100000@maidast.retep.org.uk |
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On Fri, 14 May 1999, Martin Kuba wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Postgres 6.4.2 has multibyte support, so database can be
> in one of several encodings. But the JDBC driver uses
> for fetching data this method:
>
> src/interfaces/jdbc/postgresql/ResultSet.java line 164:
> return new String(this_row[columnIndex - 1]);
>
> It means that not the database internal encoding, but
> the default encoding of client JVM will be used for
> converting 8-bit characters to 16-bit UNICODE characters.
>
> In postgres 6.5beta is the same code, so I think next
> release will have the same bug.
>
> Is it difficult to get the database encoding and use
> it for converting bytes to Strings ? Is anybody planning
> to do it ? If not, how can I do it ?
Guess what, I've just found a patch someone sent me earlier in the year,
implementing some Unicode support. If I get chance, I'll take a look at
it, but I don't think I'll get it into 6.5.
Peter
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