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Re: BUG #1775: UTF8 to ISO does not convert the german

Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> — 2005-07-20T13:04:37Z

> TI> Problem here is the result of convert(ort using utf_8_to_iso_8859_1)
> TI> is ISO-8859-1 but your database encoding is UTF-8,
> 
> Not exactly, my database is in iso_8859_1, only the opengeodb-dump is
> solely available in utf-8.
> The whole thing is no problem so far, as I can convert the values in
> the application that uses the data - I just wanted to let you know.

That's surprising. Since you try to convert from UTF-8 to ISO 8859-1,
I thought you store data as UTF-8.

> TI> I guess what you want to do is:
> TI> SELECT plz, loc_id, ort from orte_de
> TI> where plz between 20000 and 30000
> TI> order by convert(ort using utf_8_to_iso_8859_1)
> 
> Well, that was a fantasy-query :) just to show some "odd" values, I do
> not need that much data in the application. Currently, I cannot
> retrieve ready-converted iso data from the orte_de view, as converted
> names that contain "ß" are not shown...

Let me make sure. You store UTF-8 data in ISO 8859-1 DB?
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Tatsuo Ishii