Dear Karel, The server encoding and the client encoding are LATIN1. These results are from phpPgAdmin:
This is ok: select ascii('ͺ') ascii ----- 170 select chr(170) chr --- ͺ select to_ascii(chr(170)) to_ascii -------- a But this is not ok! select ascii('Ί') ascii ----- 186 select chr(186) chr --- Ί select to_ascii(chr(186)) to_ascii -------- select ascii(to_ascii(chr(186))) ascii ----- 32 I think that if to_ascii of ͺ (170) is a, then to_ascii of Ί (186) should be o, and not space. Halley --- Karel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 10:39:15AM -0300, Halley > Pacheco de Oliveira wrote: > > This query didn't work as I was expecting. Any > reasons > > for that ? > > > > SELECT TO_ASCII('ΑΙΝΣΪαινσϊ??°') > > > > result -> 'AEIOUaeioua ' > > > > I used psql, java and phpPgAdmin without success. > > > > (PostgreSQL 7.4.2 encoding latin1) > > Are all chars in your query LATIN1 symbols and > are you sure that all > used chars have counterpart in ASCII? For this > to_ascii() support > LATIN1, LATIN2 and WIN1250 only. I'm not sure if > there is a way how > convert others special chars (for example some > Asiatic encodings). > > # show server_encoding; > server_encoding > ----------------- > LATIN1 > > # show client_encoding; > client_encoding > ----------------- > LATIN1 > > # SELECT '>>' || TO_ASCII('ΑΙΝΣΪαινσϊ??°') || '<<'; > ?column? > ------------------- > >>AEIOUaeiou?? << > > > The last char in the string is dec 176 (hex 0xB0). > Which char do you > expect after conversion to ASCII (0-127)? > > Karel > > -- > Karel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://home.zf.jcu.cz/~zakkr/ ______________________________________________________________________ Participe da pesquisa global sobre o Yahoo! Mail: http://br.surveys.yahoo.com/global_mail_survey_br ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster