Thread: iconv -c ?
<div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>Hello,</div><div> </div><div>it seems ( for quite some time now) that PostgreSQL is using the -c option of iconv when exporting data to a different encoding:</div><div class="signature">http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/libiconv/documentation/libiconv-1.13/iconv.1.html</div><div class="signature"> </div><divclass="signature">- e.g. the Euro sign is removed when exporting LATIN1 databases to UTF8.</div><divclass="signature"> </div><div class="signature">I'm not sure, but in the past it was different and those characterscaused error messages instead.</div><div class="signature"> </div><div class="signature">So I wonder since whenincompatible characters are removed?</div><div class="signature"> </div><div class="signature">Could someone tell me,please?</div><div class="signature"> </div><div class="signature">Thank you very much!</div><div class="signature"> </div><divclass="signature">Peter</div><div class="signature"> </div></div>
On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 16:55 +0200, Jan-Peter Seifert wrote: > it seems ( for quite some time now ) that PostgreSQL is using the -c > option of iconv when exporting data to a different encoding: > http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/libiconv/documentation/libiconv-1.13/iconv.1.html PostgreSQL doesn't use iconv at all.
Gesendet: Sonntag, 21. Juli 2013 um 16:03 Uhr Von: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e@gmx.net> > On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 16:55 +0200, Jan-Peter Seifert wrote: > > it seems ( for quite some time now ) that PostgreSQL is using the -c > > option of iconv when exporting data to a different encoding: > > http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/libiconv/documentation/libiconv-1.13/iconv.1.html > PostgreSQL doesn't use iconv at all. Hello Peter, sure? The Windows versions of PostgreSQL ( 8.4 - 9.2 ) have an iconv.dll in their bin folder. I should test the behaviour on Linux then. With best regards, Peter
On 7/22/13 5:06 AM, Jan-Peter Seifert wrote: > Gesendet: Sonntag, 21. Juli 2013 um 16:03 Uhr > Von: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e@gmx.net> > >> On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 16:55 +0200, Jan-Peter Seifert wrote: > >>> it seems ( for quite some time now ) that PostgreSQL is using the -c >>> option of iconv when exporting data to a different encoding: >>> http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/libiconv/documentation/libiconv-1.13/iconv.1.html > >> PostgreSQL doesn't use iconv at all. > > Hello Peter, > > sure? The Windows versions of PostgreSQL ( 8.4 - 9.2 ) have an iconv.dll in their bin folder. That might be because it's a dependency of gettext.