Re: Bug? Text field is not viewable in a table...

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On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Durumdara <durumdara(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Dear Dave!
>
> 2011/4/14 Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>:
>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Durumdara <durumdara(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> Dear Developers!
>>>
>>> I found some problem in PGAdmin. V1.12.1, PG 9.0, Win7/X64.
>>> I have a test table with "text" field.
>>> I fillup this field with chr(1)...chr(255), so it contains 255 characters.
>>>
>>> When I try to see this table, I got error:
>>>
>>> ERROR:  character 0x81 of encoding "WIN1250" has no equivalent in "UTF8"
>>>
>>> ********** Error **********
>>>
>>> ERROR: character 0x81 of encoding "WIN1250" has no equivalent in "UTF8"
>>> SQL state: 22P05
>>
>> That error comes from PostgreSQL, and is entirely expected if you try
>> to store non-printable characters in a text column, and then convert
>> it to UTF-8 (which is what happens when pgAdmin requests data).
>> PostgreSQL is extremely strict about enforcing the correctness of
>> unicode data.
>
> Interesting, because the local is Win1250, and the database is Win1250
> too... :-(
>
> Is it PG bug?

Assuming everything that is legal in win1250 does map to something in
utf-8, then it sounds to me like PG isn't being as strict about
enforcing the correctness of win1250 strings as it does utf-8.

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