Jean-Michel POURE wrote:
>
> > 1) When I try to view tables from Access XP, the arabic letters are not
> > correctly displayed: I can see only the multibyte to single byte 1:1
> > conversion. This is not that important because I don't need to see it in
> > Access because the database will be seen through PHP on the web.
>
> The odbc driver does not support UTF-8 yet.
The odbc driver can support UTF-8.
What it doesn't support is UCS-2.
In most cases Unicode means UCS-2 under Windows.
Note that Unicode in PostgreSQL means UTF-8 and
it couldn't handle UCS-2.
regards,
Hiroshi Inoue