Re: Encoding of DBI PostgreSQL output

Note that if you have characters uper than 255, you can't represent them with ASII(extended|8-bit) (Latin1). Probably you already know that, but I don't know if the Norwegian characters are or not uper than 255.

But you can use pack to check the index of the character:

  $utf8_char = pack("U", 300 ) ; ## Change here for 'XX' (the char).
  print unpack("U", $utf8_char ) ;
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Graciliano M. P.
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Re: Re: Encoding of DBI PostgreSQL output by Kjetil (Sexton) on May 20, 2003 at 19:43 UTC
I must admit I didn't really understand that, I tried to replace `U` with `å`, but it didn't turn out anything sensible. However, I think that the Norwegian characters are within the usual 8 bit, in ISO-8859-1, `ø` is `E8` (in hex), and that's the last of the interesting characters.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: Encoding of DBI PostgreSQL output by gmpassos (Priest) on May 21, 2003 at 01:25 UTC
No! You must change the value of $utf8_char. I put a pack() in the place of the value, since my OS is only ASCII. Graciliano M. P. "The creativity is the expression of the liberty".	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Encoding of DBI PostgreSQL output by Kjetil (Sexton) on May 21, 2003 at 12:08 UTC
Ah, I see, of course... :-) å is 229, it responds, so it isn't that, at least it is not the immediate problem, allthough it could be related...	[reply]