Re: problem connecting via ODBC when unicode (now in correct forum.).

On 01/21/2011 10:20 AM, Kim Mortensen wrote:
> Thank you for your input,
>
> it may be that only ascii chars is to be used, however it should be
> stated or a bug report filled out, as you can insert Login Roles with
> different charakterset as you can actually use.
>
> Best Regards
> Kim Mortesnen
>
>

I cranked up a virtual instance of Windows XP to try to figure this out.
Turns out I need  to know more about how encoding works on Windows. I
had no problem creating the role æøå on my Linux server and logging in
using psql. On Windows not so, I get:

Username [postgres]: æøå
Password for user µ°Õ:
psql: FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "æøå"

and through ODBC:

2011-01-21 12:16:32 PSTFATAL:  password authentication failed for user "æøå"

Seems client encoding is getting in the way somehow, just not sure how.

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