[GENERAL] Encoding Issue with UNICODE

2005-04-10 Thread Fritz Bayer
Hello, I`m using postgresql 7.2.1. According to the following lines data in my database gets encoded as unicode. Server and client communication seems to use unicode as well: woody=# select version(); version --- PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on i686

Re: [GENERAL] Encoding Issue with UNICODE

2005-04-10 Thread Daniel Verite
Fritz Bayer wrote: > I have a java program, which writes words containing german umlauts > like äöü into the database. As you probably know, those characters > belong to the ISO-8859-1 character encoding set. > > In my java webapplication those umlauts (äöü) get displayed correctly. > So

Re: [GENERAL] Encoding Issue with UNICODE

2005-04-11 Thread Magnus Naeslund(t)
Fritz Bayer wrote: Hello, I`m using postgresql 7.2.1. According to the following lines data in my database gets encoded as unicode. Server and client communication seems to use unicode as well: woody=# select version(); version --- Postgre

Re: [GENERAL] Encoding Issue with UNICODE

2005-04-12 Thread Fritz Bayer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Magnus Naeslund(t)") wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Fritz Bayer wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I`m using postgresql 7.2.1. According to the following lines data in > > my database gets encoded as unicode. Server and client communication > > seems to use unicode as w

Re: [GENERAL] Encoding Issue with UNICODE

2005-04-12 Thread Fritz Bayer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Daniel Verite") wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Fritz Bayer wrote: > > > I have a java program, which writes words containing german umlauts > > like äöü into the database. As you probably know, those characters > > belong to the ISO-8859-1 character encoding set

Re: [GENERAL] Encoding Issue with UNICODE

2005-04-12 Thread John DeSoi
On Apr 12, 2005, at 6:39 AM, Fritz Bayer wrote: But in which encoding? I guess utf8 or utf16... But why doesn that fail only for äüö? Shouldn't any other letter encoded in utf16 also fail? I mean unicode itself is 16 bit long. So "münchen" should expand to 14 characters. But only ü expands to two c

Re: [GENERAL] Encoding Issue with UNICODE

2005-04-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 03:39:45AM -0700, Fritz Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 53 lines which said: > I mean unicode itself is 16 bit long. This is completely false. Unicode itself is just a table and, since it contains more than 100,000 characters, you cannot index them with 16