Re: Unicode support

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miguel Juan [mailto:mjuan@cibal.es]
> Sent: 01 September 2005 10:06
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [ODBC] Unicode support
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
> To: "Miguel Juan" <mjuan@cibal.es>
> Cc: <pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 10:32 AM
> Subject: RE: [ODBC] Unicode support
>
>
> Yes please - attached.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Miguel Juan [mailto:mjuan@cibal.es]
> > Sent: 01 September 2005 09:25
> > To: Dave Page
> > Cc: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org
> > Subject: Re: [ODBC] Unicode support
> >
> > hello,
> >
> > I will try it with BDE environment if you want.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Miguel Juan
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
> > To: "Anoop Kumar" <anoopk@pervasive-postgres.com>
> > Cc: <pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 11:36 PM
> > Subject: [ODBC] Unicode support
> >
> >
> > Hi Anoop and anyone else who might be interested,
> >
> > I've been thinking about how the Unicode support might be
> improved to
> > allow the old 07.xx non-unicode style behaviour to work for
> those that
> > need it. At them moment, when we connect using on of the
> wide connect
> > functions, the CC->unicode flag is set to true. This only
> > affects a few
> > options, such as pgtype_to_concise_type()'s mapping of PG
> types to SQL
> > types.
> >
> > It seems to me that perhaps we should set CC->unicode = 1, only upon
> > connection to a Unicode database. Anything else, we leave it
> > set to 0 so
> > that it always maps varchars etc to ANSI types, and handles other
> > encodings in single byte or non-unicode multibyte mode (which worked
> > fine in 07.xx where those encodings where appropriate, such
> as SJIS in
> > Japan). This should also help BDE based apps, which further
> > research has
> > shown me are broken with Unicode columns in SQL Server and Oracle as
> > well as PostgreSQL (search unicode + BDE on Google Groups for more).
> >
> > Am I seeing a possible improvement where in fact there isn't one, or
> > missing some obvious downside?
> >
> > Regards, Dave.
> >
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