Re: [Refdb-users] MySQL v. PostgreSQL

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Quoting Torsten Bronger <br...@ph...>:

> 3.  ":AU:~M....ller" was found.  (It must have been exactly four
>     dots.)
>

That should ring a bell. If you need four dots, the data in your  
database may be "double encoded" unicode. That is, you somehow manage  
to send unicode data (using two byte for the umlaut), but either RefDB  
or your database engine thinks it still has to convert the data into  
unicode. This turns each of these two bytes again into two bytes. It  
would be helpful to turn on refdbd debug output (refer to the -e and  
-l switches or the equivalent config file variables,  
http://refdb.sourceforge.net/manual/re02.html) to see if and why  
refdbd encodes your data again. Just add some data with an umlaut  
using addref and send the log.

regards,
Markus

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