Re: Unicode and PGAccess - Mailing list pgsql-novice

Thanks for the prompt reply.

Look's like choice 1 is going to have to do it for now, although I must admit
to being intrigued by #2.

It seems to me that PgAccess would more popular and thus I'm a little
surprised to hear that it has not been maintained. Is there another tool that
is used instead of PgAccess?

Frank

On Wednesday 27 February 2002 11:15 am, you wrote:
> Frank,
>
> > I'm new here so please let me know if this is not on topic or I do
> >  anything
> > else wrong.
>
> There is no "off topic" for the Novice list, unless you start talking
>  about Oracle.   ;-)
>
> > On my old system I used to use PGAccess to view data on a remote
> >  system. Now
> > I get the error:
> > Conversion from UNICODE and SQL_ASCII is not supported.
> >
> > I have just loaded a 7.3 version of SuSE Linux (2.4.10 kernel) to
> >  replace my
> > 7.2 system. I am running KDE 2.2.2.
>
> This is a universal problem with those platforms.  Here's the issue in
>  a nutshell:
>
> 1. KDE 2.2.x comes with new Tcl/tk libraries that are Unicode-native,
>  to support more languages.
> 2. PGAccess, which has not been maintained for a year, was written with
>  older libraries that are ASCII only.  As a result, no
>  character-conversion code was included in PGAccess
> 3. Thus, when you open PGAccess under KDE 2.2, and try to pull data
>  from a PostgreSQL database, PGAccess tries to pull it as Unicode and
>  will not accept ASCII.
> (don't ask me for techincal details.  That's as much as I know)
>
> > A search of the docs shows how to set the encoding in the database,
> >  but I can
> > find no mention of setting it on the client side. If there is such a
> >  doc,
> > please point me to it.
>
> These are your two choices:
> 1. Re-compile Postges in Multibyte Encoding form.  This is letting the
>  tail wag the dog, but will solve the problem (though it may create
>  others).
> 2. Use your vast knowledge of Tcl to fix PGAccess so that it converts
>  btw. Unicode and ACSII.
>
> Personally, I'd really love to see option 2.  Constantin and several
>  others put a lot of work into PGAccess despite the almost total lack
>  of interest from the community in the last couple of years.  Having
>  someone who could resurrect and upgrade the product would be great.
>
> >  I don't
> > have the source to PGAccess so if this is what I must do, please
> >  point me to
> > where the source may be obtained.
>
> http://www.flex.ro/pgaccess/
>
> Jeez.  There's no link to PGAccess from anywhere on the PostgreSQL home
>  page.  No wonder nobody is maintaining it!
>
> -Josh

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