is there a way to sets DBI char encoding?
Pulling data from Pg 7.3.2 via PERL DBI. For some reason, when I pull a
char field with an apostrophe, I get a strange character in place of the
apostrophe. So the sentence: Elizabeth Arden Good Night's Sleep Cream
looks like: Elizabeth Arden Good Night~Rs Sleep Cream
My database encoding is set as LATIN1. Is there a way to do this in the
DBI? I assume this is cause of my problem. If I pull the same data in
PgAdminII, it looks correct
TIA
Patrick Hatcher
Macys.Com
Could it be an artifact caused by using a "not really an apostrophe"? I see
this all the time when web sites or other data is created is some Windows app
that "helps you" by changing things to "smart quotes" using characters that
don't necessarily exist or have the same representation on other platforms.
You could create a temporary table with just that record, use pg_dump to dump
just that table, and then look at the dump to see exactly what that
apostrophe is.
Cheers,
Steve
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On Tuesday 11 March 2003 2:31 pm, Patrick Hatcher wrote:
Pulling data from Pg 7.3.2 via PERL DBI. For some reason, when I pull a
char field with an apostrophe, I get a strange character in place of the
apostrophe. So the sentence: Elizabeth Arden Good Night's Sleep Cream
looks like: Elizabeth Arden Good Night~Rs Sleep CreamMy database encoding is set as LATIN1. Is there a way to do this in the
DBI? I assume this is cause of my problem. If I pull the same data in
PgAdminII, it looks correct
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CRAP!!!
You are absolutly correct. I receive a data dump from a Filemaker database
and sure enough, smart quotes is checked off in one of the files.
Thanks for pointing me in the correct direction.
Patrick Hatcher
Macys.Com
Legacy Integration Developer
Steve Crawford
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03/11/2003 03:33 PM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] is there a way to sets DBI char encoding?
Could it be an artifact caused by using a "not really an apostrophe"? I see
this all the time when web sites or other data is created is some Windows
app
that "helps you" by changing things to "smart quotes" using characters that
don't necessarily exist or have the same representation on other platforms.
You could create a temporary table with just that record, use pg_dump to
dump
just that table, and then look at the dump to see exactly what that
apostrophe is.
Cheers,
Steve
Show quoted text
On Tuesday 11 March 2003 2:31 pm, Patrick Hatcher wrote:
Pulling data from Pg 7.3.2 via PERL DBI. For some reason, when I pull a
char field with an apostrophe, I get a strange character in place of the
apostrophe. So the sentence: Elizabeth Arden Good Night's Sleep Cream
looks like: Elizabeth Arden Good Night~Rs Sleep CreamMy database encoding is set as LATIN1. Is there a way to do this in the
DBI? I assume this is cause of my problem. If I pull the same data in
PgAdminII, it looks correct
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