Re: [gnome-db] [Patch] Mergeant does not display Latin1 characters...

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 16:54, Gonzalo Paniagua Javier wrote:
> El jue, 10 de 04 de 2003 a las 13:34, Rodrigo Moya escribió:
> > On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 03:12, Gonzalo Paniagua Javier wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > It seems that when i store the data in UTF8, mergeant fails to render
> > > the correct string.
> > > 
> > > The providers are supposed to return utf8 strings and I realized that
> > > server-rs.c does one more conversion...
> > > 
> > > Ok to commit?
> > > 
> > I think this should be done in the gnome-db-grid level, or more exactly,
> > in gnome-db-model.c#default_value_set_func. Thus, the change will fix it
> > for all libgnomedb users, not just mergeant.
> > 
> > Or am I wrong?
> 
> I'm sorry to say it, but yes :-).
> 
> All the strings from the providers should be in UTF8 (there was a bug
> about that). Getting the encoding of the data in the database and
> converting to UTF-8 must be done by the providers.
> 
> What mergeant assumes in server_resultset_stringify is that all the
> stringified representations are in the locale of the user and that's not
> true.
> 
> I have a postgres DB with UTF8 data and mergeant (without this patch)
> displays it incorrectly because it converts my utf8 strings to utf8
> again!!!
> 
> The whole point of this is that the providers should know the encoding
> in  which the data is and change it into UTF8. Gnome-db-grid should not
> do any transformation to the data received from the providers before
> displaying it.
> 
yes, you're right

cheers