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From: Igor Korot <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: PQexecPrepared() question
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:30:38 -0800
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Hi,

On Sun, Dec 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM Peter J. Holzer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 2025-12-21 00:39:23 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Igor Korot <[email protected]> writes:
> > > I added the following code in my app:
> > >     res = PQexec( m_db, "SHOW client_encoding" );
> > >     auto value = PQgetvalue( res, 0, 0 );
> > >     PQclear( res );
> > > and the value of the "value" variable is "UTF8".
> >
> > Okay ...
> >
> > > The exact error message is:
> > > ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding UTF8: 0xdf
> > > CONTEXT: unnamed portal parameter $1
> > > on the INSERT.
> >
> > client_encoding governs both the encoding that the server will
> > send, and the encoding that it expects to receive.  You are
> > sending a parameter string that is not valid UTF8.
>
> As I see it, Igor has two options:
>
> 1) Send UTF8. wcstombs is the wrong tool for this, since it uses the
>    current locale which is obviously not using UTF-8. I don't program in
>    C++, but I'm pretty sure there is a portable way to encode a string
>    in UTF-8.
> 2) Figure out which encoding his locale is using and then set
>    client_encoding appropriately. The first step to do that is to find
>    the current locale.
>    Igor, add
>         #include <ctype.h>
>         ...
>         char *current_locale = setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
>    to your code. What's the value of current_locale?
>
> I think 1) is the better strategy, but them I've been a UTF-8 fan-boy
> for over 30 years ;-).

Maybe all I need is something like this:

convert(char *dest, const std::wstring src)
{
    const wchar_t *temp = src.c_str();
    while( *dest )
    {
        dest++;
    }
    while( *temp )
    {
        *dest = *temp;
        dest++;
        temp++;
    }
    *dest++ = '\0';
    *dest = '\0';
}

?

Thank you.



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