On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:37:32PM +0100, Alexander Farber wrote:
> May I ask you an off-topic question? I've read several
> docs on Unicode, but they are difficult to understand.
Have you read the Unicode FAQ?
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
> Do you think that an UTF8 string will e
Hi Martijn,
On 1/11/07, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
If you need the string in UTF-8, why not just set the "client_encoding"
to "utf8" and then the server will only send you strings in utf8, not
conversion necessary.
actually you are right, because I need all my data in UTF8 anyway
(for a we
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:19:38AM +0100, Alexander Farber wrote:
> Hello PostgreSQL users!
>
> I have this data stored in WIN1251 encoding, which
> is being fetched by a libpq application I'm developing:
> phpbb=> select username, length(username), length(convert(username
> using windows_1251_
And additional question please:
Can I still be sure that the data returned in the
convert(username using windows_1251_to_utf8)
column will be 0-terminated or should I fetch
the data length using PQgetlength and maintain
that value in my C-program?
Thank you
Alex
On 1/11/07, Alexander Farber <[E
Hello PostgreSQL users!
I have this data stored in WIN1251 encoding, which
is being fetched by a libpq application I'm developing:
phpbb=> show client_encoding;
-
WIN1251
(1 row)
phpbb=> \d phpbb_users;
username | character varying(25) | not null default '
