Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 11:40:57PM -0700, Pradeepkumar, Pyatalo (IE10) wrote:
>> Even if somehow if I convert wchar_t * to char * and provide it to
>> Postgres, how will it differentiate between chinese characters and normal
>> characters ??
> Please note that any string you pass from the client will be interpreted
> using the client_encoding setting. So maybe what you have to do is just
> set client_encoding to the encoding that the strings are encoded in.
I think his problem is that his data is represented in UCS2 or UCS4
(or some other fixed-width representation) and we don't support those
as client_encoding values AFAIK. He'll need to do an encoding
conversion to some representation we do support, such as UTF8.
regards, tom lane