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From Leif B. Kristensen
Subject Re: Convert text from UTF8 to ASCII
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Msg-id 200903111646.30330.leif@solumslekt.org
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In response to Convert text from UTF8 to ASCII  ("Paul Dam" <p.dam@amyyon.nl>)
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On Wednesday 11. March 2009, Paul Dam wrote:
>Hoi,
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>I store content of an .txt file in a text column in the database.
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>server_encoding is UTF8.
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>If the .txt file is in ASCII this is correctly stored in the database.
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>If the .txt file is in UTF8 this is NOT correctly stored in the
> database.
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>Examples:
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>In Dutch the term for patient is 'patiënt'.
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>It is stored as 'patiënt'.

That looks a lot like UTF-8 to me. What is your client-encoding?

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