> In your case I'm guessing your Windows system isn't supplying
> UTF-8 but some other character set. Certainly that is what
> the error message implies. Note PG handles UTF-8 but not
> UTF-16 or other encodings.
Actually, Chinese is a problem on any pg version if the db encoding is
unicode, since pg currently does not support UTF8 characters above
0x10000
See my previous post
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2004-11/msg00259.php
... John
