Re: problem: Postgresql and Unicode

Hi Arthur ,

Thank you very much for your reply.
It was indeed a PHP problem. I just set the default_charset variable in
php.ini to utf-8 and it worked.

But now I'm facing another problem:
How do I convert existing data in an SQL_ASCII database to unicode?

here's my problem:
I have a SQL_ASCII postgres db containing data.
I've updated the pg_database table and set the encoding  to UNICODE for this
database.
I've changed the php.ini charset variable to utf-8.
When i add new rows to the table, I can read and write successfully in
unicode.
But if i want to see the old existing data, i have problems visualizing the
special characters (like french lettres with accents).
So i guess i have to convert the old data.

Has anyone tried this before?

Thanks for your help.

Regards
Nat


>
>On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:01:31AM +0200, Nathalie Boulos wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
>
>    Hi!
>
> > I'm using postgresql-7.2.2-1 under RedHat linux 8.0.
> >
> > I created a unicode DB and trying to insert arabic text through a php
> > script on the web. I'm getting the following error:
> > Warning: pg_exec() query failed: ERROR: Invalid UNICODE character
>sequence
> > found (0xe40000)
> >
> > the client is a IE browser on a win2000 machine, with arabic support.
> > (I'm forcing client encoding to unicode before i insert data in the DB
>by
> > adding the following line in the PHP script:
> > pg_exec($db,"set client_encoding='unicode'");       )
>
>    Could you show us how does your PHP script looks like? Setting
>client encoding on the postgres side, can be not enough. Did you set
>encoding of your PHP page to UTF, using content-type meta tag? Make sure,
>that data you want to insert, is in fact unicode. I'm just
>wild-guessing, I have never created unicode DB in postgres, but I was
>fighting with enocding issues here and there.
>
>    Best regards,
>--
>--- Artur Pietruk, arturp@plukwa.net
>
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