Re: PostgreSQL Handling of Special Characters - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Christian Paul B. Cosinas
Subject Re: PostgreSQL Handling of Special Characters
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL Handling of Special Characters  ("Markus Bertheau" <mbertheau.pg@googlemail.com>)
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Hi Markus,

Can you please elaborate more on this.
I'm really lost.
Thank You So Much.

-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Bertheau [mailto:mbertheau.pg@googlemail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 8:09 PM
To: Christian Paul B. Cosinas
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] PostgreSQL Handling of Special Characters

2006/3/20, Christian Paul B. Cosinas <cpc@cybees.com>:

> Let's say a character of 150 ASCII code. Which looks like a hypen.
>
> When I retrieve the value of that field it gives me a question mark 
> character instead of that  150 ASCII code character.
>
> What could be the possible reason of this?

Perhaps the ODBC driver thinks SQL_ASCII means ASCII and therefore discards
all bytes > 127. On PostgreSQL SQL_ASCII really means SQL_ANYTHING, so to
speak. Try to use for the database the encoding you really use.

Markus Bertheau


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