Re: BUG #2175: 22021: invalid byte sequence for encoding \"UNICODE\": - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:55:12PM +0000, Roberto wrote:
>=20
> The following bug has been logged online:
>=20
> Bug reference:      2175
> Logged by:          Roberto
> Email address:      speedrob@pop.com.br
> PostgreSQL version: 8.0
> Operating system:   windows XP
> Description:        22021: invalid byte sequence for encoding \"UNICODE\":
> Details:=20
>=20
> when I go to insert one string with accent in the bank of the following o
> error:
> 22021: invalid byte sequence for encoding \"UNICODE\":

This usually means that the encoding of your client is not UTF-8. Try
some query like "SET client_encoding TO 'LATIN1'" to see if the problem
disappears. Better yet -- try to convince the client to use UTF-8
encoding.

HTH
-- tomas