I started using HeidiSQL to access Postgres, where the base is under WIN1252.
When opening a table, where it has data like ~ç and other special characters, it is not showing correctly.
I couldn't find where to change the display configuration.
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I've got a Firebird DB (FDB file) that I can connect to just fine. However, one of the tables uses a user-defined collation, which apparently was defined via an fbintl_xyz.dll extension. That extension is not available to me.
Accessing that table consequently results in
COLLATION UTF8_XYZ for CHARACTER SET UTF8 is not installed
Is there any way around this?
I only need read access, and I don't care about collation support (ordering, upper case/lower case).
I have installed postgreSQL.
I use pgAdminIII as admin panel.
I am trying to watch tables content and see following:
How to avoid encoding problem?
For a UTF8 database, pgAdmin should always display strings correctly. The most likely explanation is that the data itself is incorrect.
This generally happens when a client application sends data in a format which doesn't match its client_encoding setting. If this is the case, setting client_encoding correctly would prevent this from happening (provided the client application's code page is supported by Postgres). This wouldn't fix the existing data, but it might be possible to repair it with the convert function.
I have recently started using PostgreSQL for creating/updating existing SQL databases. Being rather new in this I came across an issue of selecting correct encoding type while creating new database. UTF-8 (default) did not work for me as data to be included is of various languages (English, Chinese, Japanese, Russia etc) as well as includes symbolic characters.
Question: What is the right database encoding type to satisfy my needs.
Any help is highly appreciated.
There are four different encoding settings at play here:
The server side encoding for the database
The client_encoding that the PostgreSQL client announces to the PostgreSQL server. The PostgreSQL server assumes that text coming from the client is in client_encoding and converts it to the server encoding.
The operating system default encoding. This is the default client_encoding set by psql if you don't provide a different one. Other client drivers might have different defaults; eg PgJDBC always uses utf-8.
The encoding of any files or text being sent via the client driver. This is usually the OS default encoding, but it might be a different one - for example, your OS might be set to use utf-8 by default, but you might be trying to COPY some CSV content that was saved as latin-1.
You almost always want the server encoding set to utf-8. It's the rest that you need to change depending on what's appropriate for your situation. You would have to give more detail (exact error messages, file contents, etc) to be able to get help with the details.
I had an application that used a Sybase ASA 8 database. However, the application is not working anymore and the vendor went out of business.
Therefore, I've been trying to extract the data from the database, which has Arabic characters. When I connect to the database and display the contents, Arabic characters do not display correctly; instead, it looks something like ÇáÏãÇã.
Which is incorrect.
I tried to export the data to a text file. Same result. Tried to save the text file with UTF-8 encoding, but to no avail.
I have no idea what collation the tables are set to. Is there a way to export the data correctly, or convert it to the correct encoding?
the problem was solved by exporting the data from the database using "Windows-1252" encoding, and then importing it to other applications with "Windows-1256" encoding.
When you connect to the database, use the CHARSET=UTF-8 connection parameter. That will tell the server to convert the data to UTF-8 before sending it to the client application. Then you can save the data from the client to a file.
This, of course, is assuming that the data was saved with the correct character set to begin with. If it wasn't, you may be out of luck.
I have a repeating problem that just feels so basic yet I cannot solve it nor can I find a solution online. Really hoping someone has something simple.
I have multiple situations where I have relatively large tables stores in Postgres (v8.4) and I want to be able to easily display them for my testers to review. The tables always have character varying fields that go well beyond the 255 max that Access wants to display in a Text field; it should become a Memo field. The data also has every possible separator imaginable already in it (tab, carriage return, semi colon, pipe, etc) and extracting it to Excel or such will never work smoothly. The easiest thing WOULD be using ODBC to link the table into an Access DB and viewing it there ... except that when I link or import, Access translates the field to Text. I've tried settings on the ODBC, but nothing can get those Fields to be Memo.
I'll take a way to extract to Excel cleaner, to view it in Access better .. just anything that gets me the entire table in a low level user friendly way to consistently get a table like that to a place they can review it. Suggestions?
Better late than never..
I just ran into this problems with Access 2010 and Postgres 9.1. I found a setting in the Postgres ODBC driver settings that you have to change. In the ODBC Data Source Administrator, select the datasource that you setup and click the 'Configure...' button.
Click the 'Datasources' button.
Uncheck the 'Text as LongVarChar' checkbox
In Access, you may have to delete the linked tables and re-add them. I tried relinking and one table updated properly and one did not. After deleting are re-adding, I had both working.
Try setting text datatype for all columns that you want to have Memo Data Type. I checked that with PostgreSQL 9.0 (64 bit), psqlodbc_09_00_0310 (32 bit, so I created User DSN under C:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe) and as I see all columns wit text type become Memo, as opposite to characted(6) column that has Text Data Type in Access.