João Paulo Pires wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I have a PostgreSQL database which encoding is SQL_ASCII.
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> I inserted information into that database from a MySQL database, using
> Java code, which encoding is UTF-8, and the information in the
> destination database has some strange characters related with encoding
> problems.
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> There is any additional parameter that we can consider in the
> PostrgreSQL connection string to deal with those problems?
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> The problem should be related with the encoding used to connect to
> MySQL database?
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you can't encode all symbols in UTF-8 with simple ASCII. Symbols that
are the same will translate but ASCII only has 200 or so glyphs. you'll
need to convert the database to UTF-8, then redo your inserts.
