Re: UNICODE and SQL

On Mon, 5 May 2003, Marco Roda wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> I need to use SQL to insert some language specific characters into tables.
> In particular I am using German and Croatian specific characters. The
> database is created with UNICODE encoding.
> For instance, when trying to run from psql:
>
> INSERT INTO test VALUES (1,'Urlaubslite fόr nδchstes Jahr');
>
> I get the following error:
>
> ERROR: Invalid UNICODE character sequence found (0xfc7220)
>
> because of 'ό' and 'δ'.
>
> How to do it?

If you want UTF-8 with psql
then you must enable UTF-8 capable keyboard in X11.

Now, normally in modern UNIX systems (with not so modern
UTF-8 support),
you often can deal with this problem by using
(or writing) an application (e.g. in Java) that
has Unicode support.

As you are, you must
know or calculate the UTF-8 representation
of each german or hrvcki ISO char, take
both bytes of the resulting UTF-8 char
and put them in the insert statement.

Not very Handy :(

Also check out for some tool like
PgPhpAdmin and then set your mozilla
page encoding to UTF-8.

P.S.
Anyone knows if pgaccess supports Unicode at all???

> Thanks,
> Marco Roda
>
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