> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jean-Michel POURE [mailto:jm.poure@freesurf.fr]
> Sent: 25 February 2002 09:15
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] [ODBC] pgAdmin2 UTF-8 support
>
>
> Le Lundi 25 Février 2002 10:02, Dave Page a écrit :
> > So, to get this straight in my non multilingual brain, if you set
> > client encoding to latin1 then european charsets (i.e. latin based)
> > work perfectly in pgAdmin?
> Yes.
>
> > So probably we need to _at least_ do something similar for
> > Japanese/Hebrew etc...
> Yes.
>
> PostgreSQL uses the recode library.
>
> Recode can translate UTF-8 to any Windows encoding. i.e, it should be
> possible to translate UTF-8 (server) to Hebrew (Windows
> encoding, client),
> provided that Western VB is able to display Windows Hebrew
> fonts (which
> should be the case, no?).
Well IE can...
> Otherwise we will have to ask users of VB localized versions
> to recompile
> pgAdmin2. This should work anyway, in one case or another.
Yeuch.
> So users should be able to :
> - choose client encoding,
> - choose font for display.
>
Cool. Is it possible for you to try a simple test on one of your Japanese
databases?
Sounds like progress :-)
Regards, Dave.
