Hello PostgreSQL users! I have this data stored in WIN1251 encoding, which is being fetched by a libpq application I'm developing: phpbb=> show client_encoding; ----------------- WIN1251 (1 row) phpbb=> \d phpbb_users; ........ username | character varying(25) | not null default ''::character ........ phpbb=> select username, length(username), length(convert(username using windows_1251_to_utf8)) from phpbb_users where user_id=224; username | length | length -----------------+--------+-------- Лукашенко И. В. | 15 | 26 (1 row) My problem is that I need the username in the utf8 encoding. So I use the convert(username using windows_1251_to_utf8) which works fine except one thing: Is there please a way to know the length of the utf8 data? (I'm using a fixed char array in my C program) I was using char name[25 + 1] initially, but now I see that it isn't sufficient. Should I use char name[25 * 2 + 1] ? How do you usually handle such cases? Thank you for any advices Alex -- http://preferans.de
