Re: Backup messages displayed with wrong encoding - Mailing list pgadmin-support

From Guillaume Lelarge
Subject Re: Backup messages displayed with wrong encoding
Date
Msg-id 1323807631.4359.78.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: Backup messages displayed with wrong encoding  (Alexander LAW <exclusion@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Backup messages displayed with wrong encoding
List pgadmin-support
On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 08:15 +0400, Alexander LAW wrote:
> Hi,
> To make it clear I am posting two screenshots.
> ss_backup_win1251 shows valid table name (which is "Test" in Russian), 
> but in ss_backup_utf8 you can see the name with wrong encoding.
> 
> When I said "pgAdmin assumes", I meant that it converts pg_admin output 
> stream to string as ANSI-encoded, but it's not always the case.
> In fact, the opposite is common on Windows with Russian locale (and 
> non-ASCII object names), cause UTF-8 is a default encoding for a 
> database, but locale encoding (SBCS) is Win1251, and when you do backup 
> with a default encoding, you get an unreadable log.
> 

pgAdmin simply displays what pg_dump gives him. If it's in the right
encoding, you'll see your tables' name correct. I'm not sure it would be
a good idea to grab every line and to convert them in whatever encoding
pgAdmin would like. If it's possible at all.


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Guillaume http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info http://www.dalibo.com



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