Re: What's the best way to translate MS generated translations of user input to what the user actually typed prior to insert or update into PG backend table ?

2020-10-30 Thread Tom Lane
David Gauthier writes: > Next question, how does one actually replace the thing ? > replace(thestring,0x2026,'...') > ... isn't going to fly. If you don't want to write the actual UTF8 character, maybe the chr() function would suit you better [1]. regards, tom lane [1] h

Re: What's the best way to translate MS generated translations of user input to what the user actually typed prior to insert or update into PG backend table ?

2020-10-30 Thread Peter J. Holzer
On 2020-10-30 13:51:49 -0400, David Gauthier wrote: > Next question, how does one actually replace the thing ? > replace(thestring,0x2026,'...')  > ... isn't going to fly.  > Working with binary values in PG isn't at the top of my resume :-) Either just type (or copy/paste) it: select replace

Re: What's the best way to translate MS generated translations of user input to what the user actually typed prior to insert or update into PG backend table ?

2020-10-30 Thread David Gauthier
Next question, how does one actually replace the thing ? replace(thestring,0x2026,'...') ... isn't going to fly. Working with binary values in PG isn't at the top of my resume :-) On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 12:20 PM Tim Clarke wrote: > > On 30/10/2020 16:03, David Gauthier wrote: > > psql (11.5, s

Re: What's the best way to translate MS generated translations of user input to what the user actually typed prior to insert or update into PG backend table ?

2020-10-30 Thread Tim Clarke
On 30/10/2020 16:03, David Gauthier wrote: psql (11.5, server 11.3) on linux I'm using MS-Access as a Windows front-end to a PG DB table through ODBC (PostgreSQL Unicode ODBC Driver). Seems to be working fine except for when users enter "..." as part of a string, MS (in it's infinite wisdom) d

Re: What's the best way to translate MS generated translations of user input to what the user actually typed prior to insert or update into PG backend table ?

2020-10-30 Thread David G. Johnston
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 9:03 AM David Gauthier wrote: > I was thinking of a pre-insert and pre-update trigger which could make the > translation. But I'd rather not try to do this one char at a time... > translate "..." today to fix today's issue, then "--" tomorrow when that > pops up, then the

What's the best way to translate MS generated translations of user input to what the user actually typed prior to insert or update into PG backend table ?

2020-10-30 Thread David Gauthier
psql (11.5, server 11.3) on linux I'm using MS-Access as a Windows front-end to a PG DB table through ODBC (PostgreSQL Unicode ODBC Driver). Seems to be working fine except for when users enter "..." as part of a string, MS (in it's infinite wisdom) decides to translate that to what emacs is desc