Re: Umlauts and CommonSQL

----- Original Message -----
From: Friedrich Dominicus <frido@q-software-solutions.com>
To: <lisp-hug@xanalys.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 6:37 PM
Subject: Umlauts and CommonSQL


| Can anyone tell me how to enable CommonSQL with ODBC to accept content
| with Umlauts?
|
| I got this error message while trying to access such a table:
| CL-USER 5 > (sql:query "select * from foo_test")
|
| Error: External format :ASCII got error reading #<Pointer to type
(:UNSIGNED :CHAR) = #x08156340> at position 0: Non-ASCII code 246.
|   1 (abort) Return to level 0.
|   2 Return to top loop level 0.
|
|...snip...|

If your were on Windows, I would suggest checking the value of
*default-character-element-type* and call

    (lw:set-default-character-element-type 'lw:simple-char)

if needed, i.e. if base-char were the default.

I had to do so in LWW 4.1 to fetch data via ODBC. Maybe LWL 4.2 has the
same.
---
Sincerely,
Dmitri Ivanov
www.aha.ru/~divanov

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