Ok thanks for all the great feedback! Im a bit familiar with MySQL but new to Sqlite, and certainly dont know any of the optimizations you've suggested, so I appreciate all of the feedback.
Using iconv on the original text file, then running my program worked. Ill look into the other suggestions next. I run this program once before I install the DB's, so performance isnt an issue, but I will still look at the other suggestions to learn more. Thank you all so much! On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Simon Slavin <slav...@hearsay.demon.co.uk>wrote: > > On 30 Sep 2009, at 4:56am, Bible Trivia Extreme wrote: > > > Open your spanish.txt file in a hex editor. The letter 'ñ' should be > > > >> encoded as C3 B1. If you see F1 instead, it means your file is in > >> ISO-8859-1 or something similar. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> Thanks Dan, it seems to be F1. So what do I do exactly? > > Im assuming I need to fix the .txt file somehow, but how? > > The text file you are reading your data from is an ASCII text file, > not a Unicode text file. So the ñ character you read from it is in > ASCII, and that's what you're writing to your database. > > You can convert the text file you're reading from into Unicode (iconv > is fine). Or you can use a C call to convert the data you read from > the file, line by line, from whatever standard it is in (ISO-8859-1 ?) > into Unicode before you use it in your sqlite3_exec() call. Depends > on whether you're just using the file once or it it's constantly being > remade by something else you can't control. > > Roger advised you upthread to stop using sqlite3_exec() and do > _prepare, _step, _finalise. There are good reasons why he's right, > but there are also good reasons to use _exec under certain > circumstances. You'll have to weigh up the advantages and > disadvantages yourself. He's right about the PRAGMA, though: you > don't need it. > > Simon. > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
