Re: PostgreSQL Handling of Special Characters

2006/3/20, Christian Paul B. Cosinas <cpc@cybees.com>:

> Let's say a character of 150 ASCII code. Which looks like a hypen.
>
> When I retrieve the value of that field it gives me a question mark
> character instead of that  150 ASCII code character.
>
> What could be the possible reason of this?

Perhaps the ODBC driver thinks SQL_ASCII means ASCII and therefore
discards all bytes > 127. On PostgreSQL SQL_ASCII really means
SQL_ANYTHING, so to speak. Try to use for the database the encoding
you really use.

Markus Bertheau