Re: [HACKERS] UTF-8 support

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Michel POURE [mailto:jm.poure@freesurf.fr]
> Sent: 25 September 2001 20:03
> To: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
> Cc: dave Page
> Subject: Re: [ODBC] [HACKERS] UTF-8 support
>
>
>
> > > pgAdmin.exe doesn't display Japanese characters here
> > > but I can see Japanese characters using pgAdmin source.
> There seems
> > > to be .. e.g. font problem ...
> >
> >Can you provide any suggestions to fix that Hiroshi? It
> would be nice
> >to get pgAdmin to display Japanese etc. but being English
> speaking with
> >about 2 words of both French & German I don't really have
> the knowledge
> >or experience to fix it! Would it be as simple as allowing you to
> >choose a different font for the listviews/treeviews?
>
> Well, if the font is UNICODE compatible, seems like it should
> work. Here is a list of Windows UNICODE compatible fonts:
> http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/fonts.ht> ml
>
> UNICODE is
> just a mapping format.

OK, I'll need guidance with this - it's definitely more in your line of work
than mine!

> Problems:
> 1) Win 95
> and 98 have very poor & outdated UNICODE support (translation
> tables are outdated),
> 2) Windows fonts are sometimes hard to find when not installed.
>
> Maybe we should look for an open-source font and pre-install it with
> pgAdmin II.
> Any ideas friends?

Looking at the url above, all the useful fonts (i.e. those that handle
Western & Eastern characters) listed seem to be many megabytes in size (one
at least was 25Mb!). Whilst pgAdmin is only currently about a 3Mb download,
well, you can see what I'm thinking.

Regards, Dave.