Re: UTF-8 data migration problem in Postgresql 7.2
Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
To: jm.poure@freesurf.fr
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org, Inoue@tpf.co.jp
Date: 2002-02-20T15:15:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > Why don't you edit the output from pg_dump? It's just a text file. > I edited the output in Yudit. Nothing seems to be wrong. I don't know anything about Yuedit, but I guess it skips wrong UTF-8 sequences. I see an encoding converter called "lv" does something like that. Maybe filtering the file using such kind of tools and save the result to a file then input to psql works fine. > > > Why did 7.1.3 allow the input of such data? > > It's just becuase no data validation checking was there before 7.2. > Data was entered by a Japanese translator using IE5.5, japanese fonts, Win2K, > Apache and Php with UTF-8 extensions. How can it be wrong? It displays well > under IE5.5. I do not trust M$ products:-) > Are you sure it is not a PostgreSQL 7.1.3 pg_dump related bug? > Other users have the same problem when migrating to 7.2. Hard to believe it's a pg_dump bug. > Furthermore, do you think I can migrate data using ODBC adodb calls? I'm totally unsure about ODBC. Hiroshi, what do you think? -- Tatsuo Ishii