From: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
To: Marco Roda <MarcoRoda@amdosoft.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: UNICODE and SQL
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 17:22:12 -0200 (GMT+2)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305051707100.16184-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001401c3130b$0996ed80$0301a8c0@amdosoft.local>
On Mon, 5 May 2003, Marco Roda wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I need to use SQL to insert some language specific characters into tables.
> In particular I am using German and Croatian specific characters. The
> database is created with UNICODE encoding.
> For instance, when trying to run from psql:
>
> INSERT INTO test VALUES (1,'Urlaubslite für nächstes Jahr');
>
> I get the following error:
>
> ERROR: Invalid UNICODE character sequence found (0xfc7220)
>
> because of 'ü' and 'ä'.
>
> How to do it?
If you want UTF-8 with psql
then you must enable UTF-8 capable keyboard in X11.
Now, normally in modern UNIX systems (with not so modern
UTF-8 support),
you often can deal with this problem by using
(or writing) an application (e.g. in Java) that
has Unicode support.
As you are, you must
know or calculate the UTF-8 representation
of each german or hrvcki ISO char, take
both bytes of the resulting UTF-8 char
and put them in the insert statement.
Not very Handy :(
Also check out for some tool like
PgPhpAdmin and then set your mozilla
page encoding to UTF-8.
P.S.
Anyone knows if pgaccess supports Unicode at all???
> Thanks,
> Marco Roda
>
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