Firestar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently using PostgreSQL 7.0 on Solaris. My Java program receives
> strings in Big5
> encoding and will store them in PostgreSQL (via JDBC). However, the inserted
> strings become
> multiple '?' (question marks) instead everytime i do a insert command. And
> when i retrieve them,
> via JDBC, the string becomes those question marks.
>
> Is the problem due to the Unicode encoding that Java String uses, or must i
> enable multibyte-support
> in my postgre installation? If i enable multibyte support, should i create
> my table with Unicode support,
> or Big5?
>
Upgrade to just released 7.1,
now postgres can do unicode conversion to you.
(thanks to Mr. Tatsuo Ishii)
I think you should enable both enable-multibyte & enable-unicode-conversion
switch.
when building postgresql.
regards
Laser
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