Dear Nhan Dgo,
Please CC pg-odbc and pgadmin lists so that anyone can participate.
> I'm currently running Microsoft SQL Server 2000 on a Windows 2000 Server
> platform, but this is only to read the source database. I don't know how to
> retrieve the source encoding... It should be UNICODE since it stores both
> LATIN1 and arabic chars.
I am not sure. There should be a way to run a select statement to know what
encoding is used internally. Search the $W website.
> The target platform is Linux with PostgreSQL 7.2 and PHP/Apache of course
> and this shouldn't be a problem for me.
Don't try to view data in the Windows platform, this will not work because
pgAdmin2 and the odbc driver are not utf-8 compatible.
Make sure to migrate the schema first using pgAdmin2. Then export text and
convert it using iconv or recode (if not utf-8 yet). Maybe you can try to
open the text files in Yudit, the multi-byte text editor, which will tell you
what encoding is used.
Try to write a simple script under PHP. Please note the testing php page 1)
should be saved in utf-8 format 2) and should carry utf-8 headers to tell the
browser to switch to utf-8. Be sure your browser has the arabic fonts (go to
an arabic web site to verify).
Good luck my friend.
Cheers,
Jean-Michel POURE