Re: BUG #5010: perl iconv function returns ? character

Cluster is created with cs_CZ.UTF-8 collation.

                                  List of databases
   Name    |  Owner   | Encoding |  Collation  |    Ctype    |
Access privileges
-----------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-------------=
----------
 postgres  | postgres | UTF8     | cs_CZ.UTF-8 | cs_CZ.UTF-8 |
 template0 | postgres | UTF8     | cs_CZ.UTF-8 | cs_CZ.UTF-8 | =3Dc/postgres
                                                             :
postgres=3DCTc/postgres
 template1 | postgres | UTF8     | cs_CZ.UTF-8 | cs_CZ.UTF-8 | =3Dc/postgres
                                                             :
postgres=3DCTc/postgres
(3 rows)




2009/9/6 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Lampa<lampacz@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> function my_ascii2 is defined:
>>> CREATE FUNCTION my_ascii2(text) RETURNS text AS $$ use strict; use
>>> Text::Iconv; my $conv =3D Text::Iconv->new("UTF8", "ASCII//TRANSLIT"); =
return
>>> $conv->convert($_[0]); $$ LANGUAGE plperlu;
>>>
>>> 8.3.x version works perfectly, 8.4.0 problem
>
>> I can't reproduce this on 8.4.0 or CVS HEAD. =A0I think that whatever
>> problem you have here is not a PostgreSQL bug.
>
> I suspect that function will only work as desired in a database with
> UTF8 server_encoding. =A0Maybe the problem is the 8.4 database is set up
> with some other encoding?
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0regards, tom lane
>



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Lampa