Database->ServerEncoding, ClientEncoding - Mailing list pgadmin-hackers

From Jean-Michel POURE
Subject Database->ServerEncoding, ClientEncoding
Date
Msg-id 200202251712.g1PHCqLx004119@www1.translationforge
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In response to pgSchema Changes  (Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>)
Responses Re: Database->ServerEncoding, ClientEncoding  ("Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>)
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Hi Dave,

I used pgSchema today with a Latin1 encoding hack.

Whenever a character does not exist in Latin1 (example : euro sign), an error
is returned. Obviously, this is not always the case: Japanese is transformed
in unreadable characters without error.

My impression is that client encoding is not ***very** secure. A full unicode
chain is a better solution. But we need Client encoding support as it offers
a wide variety of encodings ... and is compatible with VB.

Maybe we could start modifying pgSchema->Databases and pgSchema->pgDatabase.
What would you think if we :
- renamed EncodingName into ServerEncoding,
- added ClientEncoding.

Then, in frmSQLInput, we would add a combo to choose the encoding needed.

This will allow me to view UTF-8 data in Latin1 and export it in UTF-8. Isn't
it marvelous?

Cheers,
Jean-Michel

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