Thanks, Albe, I had checked this, too, and it was ok. I already posted the solution to the board. It was an error due to an incorrect conversion between an object-instance and a char. It works now. Am 22.03.2012 um 12:50 schrieb Albe Laurenz: > Alexander Reichstadt wrote: >> I need to be able to store special chars, German Umlaute, in my tables. This works when using >> pgPHPAdmin to store the same value to the same field. But when using the c-library it doesn't, fields >> stored are garbled. >> >> I checked using \l to see what encoding the database is which is UTF8, UTF8 is what's required. >> >> List of databases >> Name | Owner | Encoding | Collation | Ctype | Access privileges >> -----------+----------+----------+-----------+-------+----------------------- >> MyDB | postgres | UTF8 | C | C | >> alltypes | postgres | UTF8 | de_DE | C | >> postgres | postgres | UTF8 | C | C | >> template0 | postgres | UTF8 | C | C | =c/postgres + >> | | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres >> template1 | postgres | UTF8 | C | C | =c/postgres + >> | | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres >> >> >> As a way to store things I use PGSQLKit, which in turn uses >> >> const char *cString = [sql cStringUsingEncoding:defaultEncoding]; >> if (cString == NULL) >> >> res = PQexec(pgconn, cString); >> >> to store things. The defaultEncoding I also changed explicitly from defaultEncoding to UTF8 to try, >> but got the same result. As far as I can see this is not an error on part of the PGSQLKit. >> >> >> From what I read there is no table specific encoding. >> >> The collation is set to C, but that's something only relevant to sorting as far s I understand. >> >> So, I am at a loss as to where things go wrong. >> >> Any ideas? > > I know nothing about PGSQLKit, but you should check what client_encoding is set to. > If it is set to something else than UTF8, say for example LATIN1, then PostgreSQL > will happily interpret the bytes in your UTF8 string as LATIN1 and convert them > to UTF8, resulting in things like 'schöne ScheiÃ\u009Fe'. > > Yours, > Laurenz Albe > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
