RE: [INTERFACES] JDBC and character sets

That's my main worry, and one of the reasons I haven't really looked at
it yet.

What we would need is some way for the client to see if the backend was
compiled for unicode, and enable that functionality if it is, or default
to ASCII if not.

Peter

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Peter Mount
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Maidstone Borough Council
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-----Original Message-----
From: Herouth Maoz [mailto:herouth@oumail.openu.ac.il]
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 4:45 PM
To: Peter Mount
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] JDBC and character sets


At 18:22 +0300 on 22/06/1999, David Warnock wrote:


> > If I understand this correctly, if I make sure the driver converts
the
> > strings (in the correct methods) into UTF-8, then unicode support
will
> > work?
> >
> > I'm wondering, as I haven't delved into Unicode with the driver yet.
If
> > this is the case, it will be a simple thing to implement.
>
> Ooooh yes please. This would be a great thing for us. If you need any
> help testing please tell us.

Well, what if we haven't compiled the system for unicode? Make sure the
driver doesn't kill us in such a case. We use ISO8859-8 for our data. If
you were to convert it to utf-8, it would certainly not work as we
expect.
Especially if the database is not compiled for unicode.

Herouth

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Open University of Israel - Telem project
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