From: Christian Paul B. Cosinas <cpc@cybees.com>
To: 'Markus Bertheau' <mbertheau.pg@googlemail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Handling of Special Characters
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:48:03 -0800
Message-ID: <002701c64be1$de30c220$1e21100a@ghwk02002147> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <684362e10603192009s28a0afe4m@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Markus,
Can you please elaborate more on this.
I'm really lost.
Thank You So Much.
-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Bertheau [mailto:mbertheau.pg@googlemail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 8:09 PM
To: Christian Paul B. Cosinas
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] PostgreSQL Handling of Special Characters
2006/3/20, Christian Paul B. Cosinas <cpc@cybees.com>:
> Let's say a character of 150 ASCII code. Which looks like a hypen.
>
> When I retrieve the value of that field it gives me a question mark
> character instead of that 150 ASCII code character.
>
> What could be the possible reason of this?
Perhaps the ODBC driver thinks SQL_ASCII means ASCII and therefore discards
all bytes > 127. On PostgreSQL SQL_ASCII really means SQL_ANYTHING, so to
speak. Try to use for the database the encoding you really use.
Markus Bertheau
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