Re: ODBC Driver stability

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-odbc-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-odbc-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Jaime Casanova
> Sent: 12 November 2004 21:44
> To: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [ODBC] ODBC Driver stability
>
>  --- Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> escribió:
> > >
> > > Hi Dave,
> > >
> > > I was having a problem with the odbc driver, when
> > i install
> > > it (v8.0.0.2) the spanish character that appears
> > in my vb
> > > application get weird. Can you point me what place
> > in the
> > > code is more significativly to this bug?
> >
> > Err, probably not (unless I'm the wrong Dave). Is your database
> > encoded as SQL_ASCII? I know very little about encodings, but iirc
> > non-ASCII characters are not guaranteed to work correctly although
> > they appear to in some front end interfaces. I believe you
> need to use
> > one of the latin encodings or unicode to resolve this.
> >
> > Regards, Dave.
> >
>
> I will probe with other encodings as you suggest but driver
> v7.3.2 works fine on this and only if a install
> v8.0.0.2 have problem.
>
> Are you sure it's *just* an encoding problem?

No. That's just a common one to check. Like I said, I know little about encoding and other localisation issues.

Regards, Dave.