Re: Hebrew support -- please help !

> > If I understand correctly, JDBC driver issues "set client_encoding to
> > iso-8859-8" in your case. You should check it first. If it does the
> > right thing, then you might want to the conversion maps. They are located:
>
> > src/backend/utils/mb/Unicode/utf8_to_iso8859_8.map // UNICODE(UTF-8) -> ISO-8859-8
> > src/backend/utils/mb/Unicode/iso8859_8_to_utf8.map // ISO-8859-8 -> UNICODE(UTF-8)
>
> > If you find anything wrong, please let me know.
>
> I installed postgresql from a rpm files:
>   * postgresql-7.4.3-2PGDG.i686.rpm
>   * postgresql-jdbc-7.4.3-2PGDG.i686.rpm
>   * postgresql-libs-7.4.3-2PGDG.i686.rpm
>   * postgresql-server-7.4.3-2PGDG.i686.rpm
>
> So in my installation there are no map file but there are a lot of so's in /usr/lib/pgsql.
> I can observe that there is no utf8_and_iso8859_8.so file. How can I got/compile this file ?

It's in utf8_and_iso8859.so.

> The second solution, that I prefer but that failed was to work server/client side only in utf8. The DB was UNICODE,
the'show client_encoding' returned unicode and the charset in the jsp was utf-8. Any idea !? 

In PostgreSQL, unicode, utf8 and utf-8 are all equivalent.
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Tatsuo Ishii