[Mono-list] Encoding problems

[Francisco Figueiredo Jr.]

Aleksandar Dezelin wrote:
> Francisco Figueiredo Jr. wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I received a report about problems with encoding on mono.
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>> The following text isn't being returned correctly from database:
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>> Magriñá
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>> The chars n-tilde and a-acute is appearing as strange chars.
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>> On mono 1.0.4 on linux if you change LANG to en_US the text reads
>> correctly, with es_ES not.
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>> I tested here with svn version and with both en_US and es_ES it works.
>> Only if I export LANG= it returns wrong chars. What is the default
>> encoding when I don't set LANG?
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>> Do you know if there is any problem with 1.0.4 or 1.0.5 and if so if
>> there is any fix?
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>> Thanks in advance.
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> If you want to store non latin strings in a database without using the 
> database unicode type you should convert them to latin1 codepage before 
> storing it in the database and afterwards convert it to the desired 
> codepage after reading it from the database.
> 

Thanks Aleksandar. I will do some tests and let you all know what I get.

Regards,

Francisco Figueiredo Jr.