I don't see any strange thing.
There has been no mapping from UTF-8 0xc2a0 to SJIS in PostgreSQL
since the day one. That means, you should get the error on 7.4.3, as
well as on 8.3. Are you sure that you don't have the error on 7.4.3?
--
Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
> SHIFT_JIS_2004 is different to SJIS.
> But when I use SJIS, I occur the same problem,
> so I try SHIFT_JIS_2004.
>
> => set client_encoding='SJIS';
> SET
> => select * from tablexx;
> ERROR: character 0xc2a0 of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in "SJIS"
>
> too confused...
>
> Thanks
>
>
> 2008/2/13, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>:
> > > hi
> > >
> > > I used Postgresql7.4.3 with php for more than 3years.
> > > Now I want to change my database to Postgresql8.3.
> > > But I occur such problem
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > > ERROR: character 0xe9ab99 of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in "SJIS"
> > > ERROR: character 0xe9ab99 of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in
> > > "SHIFT_JIS_2004"
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > > The database was encoded by UTF-8,
> > > to export data as .csv file,
> > > I use set client_encoding='SJIS' at client.
> > > When I use Postgresql7.4.3,no problem occur,
> > > but after I chaged to Postgresql8.3 ,the error was occured.
> > >
> > > Can I ignore the error message ?
> > > or any othe method to solve this problem.
> >
> > First of all, you should aware that SHIFT_JIS_2004 is a comppletely
> > different beast from SJIS. If you want to continue to use SJIS data in
> > 7.4, you must use SJIS, not SHIFT_JIS_2004 on 8.3. Or do you have any
> > particular reason to use SHIFT_JIS_2004?
> >
> > BTW,
> >
> > > ERROR: character 0xe9ab99 of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in "SJIS"
> >
> > I don't see this error message with PostgreSQL 8.3.0 running on a
> > Linux box. I can store UTF-8 0xe9ab99 (== U+9AD9) and retrieve it from
> > the SJIS client side (0xe9ab99 corresponds to 0xfbfc). Actually we can
> > confirm this by looking at line 6914 in
> > src/backend/utils/mb/Unicode/utf8_to_sjis.map:
> >
> > {0xe9ab99, 0xfbfc},
> >
> > Note that the left is the value for UTF-8, and the right side the
> > value for SJIS. I recommend you to double check your PostgreSQL 8.3
> > installation.
> >
> > For your convenience, I have attatched a dump containing a table
> > (called "t1") which has the UTF-8 character in question.
> >
> > $ createdb -E UTF_8 test
> > $ gunzip -c /tmp/t1.dump.gz|psql test
> > $ psql -c "set client_encoding to SJIS;select * from t1" test
> > --
> > Tatsuo Ishii
> > SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
> >
> >
>
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