Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Le Mardi 5 Novembre 2002 17:51, Gaul, Ken a �crit :
> > Set your NLS_LANG environement variable before execution of your script and
> > it should work as expected.
> This doesn't seems to be the most portable construct among different
> systems/dbms...
>
> According to postgresql manual, the following is SQL 92 standard:
> SET NAMES 'encoding'
>
> Sofar, i've tried $dbh->do("SET NAMES 'unicode'"); at the beginning of my
> script to get utf8 strings, but i'm not sure about the portability of this
> specific encoding value.
you can actually set the NLS_LANG stuff in the windows registery table for
windows, or even better, pass it as argument to the driver.
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dams
