Re: [Rlib-devel] Re: RLIB: can you test this

[Everton L. B. <ev...@fa...>]

Chet Heilman wrote:
> Hi Everton,
Hi,

> 
>    I can't tell what is happening from that stack trace. It was not in 
> RLIB at the time it crashed. I think that maybe RLIB does not remove its 
> exception handler when it exits, or maybe it got stuck in a loop and got 
> killed - can't tell.
> 
>    Anyway, was  your database created with a specific encoding? The 
> latest RLIB requires the DB to be in UTF8. That is probably why the 
> characters are not coming out correctly. I suspected this might be a 
> problem in this version, but making everything work out correctly could 
> get very confusing. If this is the case, we need an input encoding for 
> the datasource.
> 
>    I suspect that your DB is encoded as iso-8859-1.
Yes, you are right.

> 
>    1.1.8 versions of RLIB use UTF8 internally. libxml always produces UTF8.
> 
>    Does anyone know if there is a way to 'ask' the db what encoding it 
> is using? That would eliminate the need for the app level to set it.
At Postgres you can execute: SELECT getdatabaseencoding();
Returns for me 'LATIN1', it's the same of 'ISO-8859-1'

> 
>    Anyway, I'll make some changes so that you can set a datasource 
> encoding. This would be the encoding used by the datasource.
> 
>    We could have a similar problem with passed parameters, if they are 
> not UTF8 encoded.
> 
>   Chet
> 
> 
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