Thread: Re: UTF-8

Re: UTF-8

From
Jean-Michel POURE
Date:
>Yes, isn't this also the case with Unicode data? When you mentioned that
>before I asked how to fix it and nobody could tell me... There was mention
>of using a Unicode font, but that was many megabytes in size as I recall.
>
>Suggestions?

Yes, you are right.
I am doing a test with Arial Unicode MS
/Later JMP

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Re: UTF-8

From
Jean-Michel POURE
Date:
At 11:21 09/11/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Arial Unicode MS ­ 51,180 glyphs in version 0.86

Well, after testing, using Arial Unicode MS does not suffice.
I am sure PostgreSQL backend is well configured as I display Japanese fonts
with PHP.

Maybe we need to configure odbc to declare it as an UTF-8 encoding client?
Any idea?

Cheers,
Jean-Michel