On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 11:40:57PM -0700, Pradeepkumar, Pyatalo (IE10) wrote: > I have already posted my query regarding libpq functions and wide character > support. Pls somebody help me. I am using libpq API functions in my C code > to do operations on the database. But the problem I m facing is API > functions like PQexec() etc....accept only char * .... but as part of > localization, the queries I want to executed contain chinese characters > which are multibytes. So the queries I want to execute are in wchar_t * > format and PQ exec() accepts only char *. Is there any alternate way to > execute queries having wide characters. I think you could be using PQexecParams() and passing your wide-char strings as binary parameters somehow. I don't really know if this will work or not, but it may give you an idea. But note below: > 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. If you choose the wrong client_encoding, the server may recode the characters inappropiately, or not at all, and thus insert wrong data. Please see the documentation. -- Alvaro Herrera -- Valdivia, Chile Architect, www.EnterpriseDB.com "When the proper man does nothing (wu-wei), his thought is felt ten thousand miles." (Lao Tse)
