Specify your codepage :
SET CLIENT_ENCODING TO 'LATIN1' ;
SELECT * FROM table1 ;
Your database woul be coded as LATIN1.
Luc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ying Lu" <ying_lu@cs.concordia.ca>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 5:49 PM
Subject: [GENERAL] About ERROR: could not convert UTF-8 character 0x00e9 to
ISO8859-1
> Greetings,
>
> PostgreSQL 8.0.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.2.
> When I run
>
> select * from table1;
>
> I got an error:
> =========
> ERROR: could not convert UTF-8 character 0x00e9 to ISO8859-1
>
> I tried to google but cannot find much info about it. Can somebody help?
>
> Thanks,
> Emi
>
>
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