Re: BUG #4890: Allow insert character has no equivalent in "LATIN2"

Dnia 13-07-2009 o 19:58:50 Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>
napisał(a):

> (Please reply to the list, not just to me)
>

I'm sorry.

> I'd still like to know how you're setting your client encoding. You
> can't just run "SET client_encoding='win1250'" - you must tell the
> client program, or the terminal it runs in, to use the appropriate
> encoding as well. Otherwise when you paste the per-mille character
> you'll see the right glyph, but the CLIENT will interpret that as the
> character in the encoding you specified.
>
> So, if you're using a utf-8 terminal, that means that the terminal will
> send 0xe2 0x80 0xb0 for per-mille, which when interpreted as win1250
> becomes ‰ , so that's what the server thinks you sent it.
>
> In that case, though, you'd find that the euro symbol, which isn't
> defined in latin-2, will cause an error:
>
> ERROR:  character 0xe282ac of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in
> "LATIN2"
>

I didn't use terminal, I used pgAdmin III for first test
and you're right, this was not good idea, but somehow
validation for invalid characters work properly.
For later tests I used python-psycopg2 script.

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Robert Świętochowski




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