A question about postgresql 8.1 and UTF strings - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Yair Zas
Subject A question about postgresql 8.1 and UTF strings
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Msg-id 23adfcc00606180110g43045926o2badbc5aee77a2d3@mail.gmail.com
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Good day all,
I have postgresql 8.1 (on WINXP service pack 2).
I have a table t_users with the columns id (serial),  username ( varchar(256) ), and password ( varchar(256) )
The database was created with UT8 encoding.
I have 5 users at the database, and some of them have non-latin (especially hebrew) usernames, i entered these non latin values simply by using the pgadmin gui (was i correct to do so?) to enter the non-latin strings.
I opened a jdbc connection using a standard postgres JDBC URL and selected a recordset with a hebrew username.
I used String user = ResultSet.GetString("username") to get the String (which contains 4 hebrew letters)
and then I used
 
System.out.println(user.getBytes().length) - however, instead of seeing 8 bytes (2 bytes per each character, 4 characters ), i saw 4 bytes ....
Can you please tell me what is it that I'm doing wrong?
 
Thanks
 
Yair
 

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