On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 20:48 +0000, T E Schmitz wrote:
> INSERT INTO item (name,retail_price) VALUES ('Cheese Soufflé',7.95,);
>
> (I presume you see the accented character in *Soufflé*)
>
> psql comes back with "invalid byte sequence for encoding "UNICODE": 0xe9"
> If I do this via DbVisualizer, the record is inserted fine.
might be the client encoding.
test=# CREATE DATABASE unitest with ENCODING='UNICODE';
CREATE DATABASE
test=# \connect unitest
You are now connected to database "unitest".
unitest=# create table a (n text);
CREATE TABLE
unitest=# insert into a values ('Cheese Soufflé is cool');
ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UNICODE": 0xe92069
unitest=# set client_encoding='LATIN1';
SET
unitest=# insert into a values ('Cheese Soufflé is cool');
INSERT 7533697 1
unitest=# select * from a; n
------------------------Cheese Soufflé is cool
(1 row)
unitest=#
gnari
