On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, A B wrote:
> alright, now I have created a new db-cluster with initdb -E UTF8
> --locale=C and the encoding problem still remains when trying to
> access with PHP.
>
> Error ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xe56e69 HINT: This
> error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match the encoding
> expected by the server, which is controlled by "client_encoding".
That sequence isn't valid UTF8. What encoding is the PHP script trying to
send data in? If it's something other than UTF8 (for example ISO8859-1),
you need to set client_encoding to the correct encoding.