Lossy character conversion to Latin-1 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John DeSoi
Subject Lossy character conversion to Latin-1
Date
Msg-id 6E891C11-EC36-49B8-9533-A82412A814E1@pgedit.com
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Responses Re: Lossy character conversion to Latin-1  (Nis Jorgensen <nis@superlativ.dk>)
Re: Lossy character conversion to Latin-1  (Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>)
List pgsql-general
I have a client that only supports Latin-1 and needs to connect to a
UTF-8 database to retrieve some data. Some columns may contain
characters that have no Latin-1 equivalent. I would like to convert
these to a blank or perhaps some hex value. Is there any way to do
this in PostgreSQL without using anything other than built in
functions or pl/pgsql? It would be nice if the built in convert
function had an option to handle this rather than only generating an
error. Any pointers to an existing pl/pgsql function to perform this
conversion?

Thanks,

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL


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