I suspect that data stored in your database was not EUC_CN. GB2312(or
GBK) is different from EUC_CN. Can you show me the INSERT statement
text in gzipped form to prevent accidental changes while relaying the
mail chanin?
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Tatsuo Ishii
> Hello,
>
> I am using Postgresql 7.1 on Linux platform (RedHat 7.1).
>
> My database encoding is 'EUC_CN'.
>
> The application is accessing database with PG JDBC2.0.
>
> I had define a field in a table like:
>
> create table test1 (
>
> id integer default not null,
> memo varchar(128)
>
>
> );
>
> The memo field is for user to record some comment or alike. They input Chinese
>(GB2312 or GBK encoding) mixed with ASCII.
>
> Problem happens when:
>
> The length of the input string is larger than 128, and the 128th and 129th byte
>consists of a Chinese character (you know Chinese characters use two bytes in GB2312
>or GBK encoding).
>
> The problem is:
>
> The insert query will be running well without any error. But the getString method
>will get a zero length String from the field.
>
> More complications:
>
> When I pg_dump the database and restore it, the scripts produced by pg_dump (with -D
>flag, which means dump with attribute) can not be restored. When I check the scripts
>I found that the memo field of this record is dumped without the ending single quote
>(this is because the 128th byte and the single quote followed acutally consists of
>another unrecognized chinese character) and that is why it failed to be restored.
>
> Below is the dump for this record:
>
> INSERT INTO
> "test1" ("id","memo") VALUES
>(5,'¨°¨°¡Á??¡ì¨ª???¦Ì?¨º?¨°¨¤¨¦??¨®GH¦Ì£¤?a??¨¬????¨¤?¡Â¨°a¨º?5??1¨¨??¨¢3¨¨?¨°¨°¦Ì¨²¨°??¨®?a?¨¬¡ã2??¨¢?¨°???D??¡À1¡è?£¤¨¬?¨¢???¨¬¨¬¡ê?¨ª?¦Ì?¨º¡À????¡Á¡é¨°a?1?¨¦??¨º1¨°¦Ì?¡Â¨ª???¨°?¨°a?¨®?');
>
>
>
> I feel the Multibyte is not properly handled in this case. Looking forward to
>hearing from dev team.
>
> Finally I think PostgreSQL is an excellent database, but the name postgresql seems
>very difficult to pronounce and it is probably one obstacle preventing people knowing
>more about it.
>
> Thanks for the hardworking of the dev team, you have done excellent work!
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
>
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