Hiroshi Saito wrote:
>From: "Andreas Pflug" <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>
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>>Serguei A. Mokhov wrote:
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I think I have a similar issue... A pgAdmin III user contacted me with the
>>>question why they can't see the data in Russian and how to to solve the
>>>problem. I queried them for more information. I think their data must be
>>>encoded in some other encoding (e.g. KOI8-R) and when it gets to the
>>>client side, it's not converted.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>This is correctly diagnosed, non-ascii data in a SQL_ASCII encoded
>>database will not be shown because the server doesn't know how to encode
>>it in Unicode.
>>
>>This is fixed for HEAD and BRANCH.
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>No.
>Server encoding as below.
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This is not suitable for non-ascii chars, because the upper bit will be
chopped off (ascii->utf8), effectively destroying the string, or
converted to a bogus char (xx), effectively destroying the string.
Regards,
Andreas