Some questions to help us, and maybe give you some hints as to what might be wrong.

How did you determine the fact that the value isn't a correct Tcl string?

What encoding is the database in? (UTF-8?) Are you 100% sure the data in the database is actually correct?

I wouldn't think you would need to convert anything. Tcl uses UTF-8 internally. A string from the database should be nothing more than an array of bytes and when a Tcl string is created, it is assumed these bytes are UTF-8.

Did you specify the correct encoding in either the server headers (preferred) or html tags? Unless you do that, the browser won't know what character set it should use.

Regards,
Bas.

On 03/04/2008, at 4:52 AM, Rajesh nair wrote:

Hi all,

We have an existing Tcl service which provides the data from mysql to clients as an HTML table. We have some records in mysql with multibye characters which are not being rendered correctly.

Simple ns_db getrow does not return me the correctly encoded data form database.
I have the sample code snippet to replicate this

       set db [ns_db gethandle]

       set sql1 "use mydb";
       ns_db exec $db $sql1;
             set row [ns_db select $db "select title from channel"]
       set numcols [ns_set size $row]
           while {[ns_db getrow $db $row]} {
          for {set i 0} {$i < $numcols} {incr i} {
             ns_puts " :[ns_set value $row $i]"
         }
         ns_puts "<br>"        }

I understand that I need to specify the encoding to get the correct tcl strings in ns_set but cannot find the way to do so. Any pointers?

Thanks in advance--
-- Rajesh Nair


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