Re: is there a way to sets DBI char encoding?

Could it be an artifact caused by using a "not really an apostrophe"? I see
this all the time when web sites or other data is created is some Windows app
that "helps you" by changing things to "smart quotes" using characters that
don't necessarily exist or have the same representation on other platforms.

You could create a temporary table with just that record, use pg_dump to dump
just that table, and then look at the dump to see exactly what that
apostrophe is.

Cheers,
Steve


On Tuesday 11 March 2003 2:31 pm, Patrick Hatcher wrote:
> Pulling data from Pg 7.3.2 via PERL DBI.  For some reason, when I pull a
> char field with an apostrophe, I get a strange character in place of the
> apostrophe.  So the sentence:  Elizabeth Arden Good Night's Sleep Cream
> looks like: Elizabeth Arden Good Night~Rs Sleep Cream
>
> My database encoding is set as LATIN1.  Is there a way to do this in the
> DBI?  I assume this is cause of my problem.  If I pull the same data in
> PgAdminII, it looks correct
> TIA
>
> Patrick Hatcher
> Macys.Com
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