Re: Support for Special Big5 double-byte characters

Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
> Raymond Leung wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >     I am new to this mailing list. Currently I am using Debian
> 2.2 + PGSQL 7.1 as backend db server.
> > I am writing a Visual FoxPro 6 application and access the data
> via ODBC driver 7.01.00.07. This
> > FoxPro program mainly deals with Chinese Traditional (Big5)
> characters. I tried to search the list
> > archive by Google, and some experts said there's a patch of the
> ODBC driver which can solve the
> > Chinese Big5 character's second byte (i.e. "\") problem. Could
> anyone please kindly let me know
> > where to obtain this patch ?
>
> If you can get the snapshot source, no patch is needed.
> MULTIBYTE stuff is #ifdef'd and you can get the multibyte
> version of the dll by typing
>   nmake /f win32.mak cfg=MultibyteRelease
> .
>
> If you are to use BIG5 as the client encoding, you have
> to add the following command to the *Connect Settings*
> DataSource option.
>   set client_encoding to 'BIG5'
>
> regards,
> Hiroshi Inoue

Multibyte psqlodbc-07.01.0007 (DLL Only)

http://www.sankyo-unyu.co.jp/Pool/psqlodbc-07.01.0007-mb.zip

 Eiji Tokuya