Re: [mdb-dev] Internationalisation of the command line tools

[<pa...@ti...>]

Jeff Smith wrote:

>--- "Pedro A. Aranda Guti=E9rrez" <pa...@ti...> wrote:
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>>|IdDirector |Apellidos                                        =20
>>|Nombre                            |
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>>|96         |Previn                                           =20
>>|Andr=C3=A9                            |
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>>1 Row retrieved
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>>The column 'Nombre' should show Andr=E9. Is there someone working o=
n this?
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>
>It is showing Andr=E9 -- in UTF8.  To get it to show up in another e=
ncoding,
>you need to set the environment variable MDB_ICONV to the encoding y=
ou want.
>Run 'iconv -l' to see the available encodings.  Most people that nee=
d it
>changed would want ISO-8859-1.
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Thanks a lot. There is a Spanish proverb: "You'll never go to sleep=
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without having learnt
something new" :-)

>>Then, I'd also like to point out that mdb-sql is extremely interest=
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>>for many quick
>>prototyping applications, but only if it can be used as a coprocess=
. For=20
>>that you need
>>to add an
>>    fflush(stdout);
>>after every
>>    fprintf(stdout,"\n");
>>
>>I know it sounds tedious, but the application for this is really=
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>>_great_. I could provide
>>a patch for adding this.
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>
>What information can you give on how you are using it?  What are you=
 doing
>that libmdbsql cannot provide?
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I didn't have the time to go through libmdbsql and had mdb-sql runnin=
g.=20
So I made this
trivial patch and now I am able to write C programs (using tcc I don'=
t=20
even need to compile
them to do the tests) which access my MDB files via mdb-sql. This can=
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also apply for people
you might want to access MDB using AWK or other scripting languages.=
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This fflush() over-
comes the UNIX limitation of not flushing stdout after a "\n" if stdo=
ut=20
is connected to a pipe.

It's not that you do something you wouldn't be able to do... it's mor=
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the convinience of having
a running program and 'connecting' it to other tools. Isn't this what=
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all love in **IX OS's ?? :-)

Regards,

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Pedro Andr=E9s Aranda Guti=E9rrez
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