Re: inserting non-ascii characters - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Andreas Seltenreich
Subject Re: inserting non-ascii characters
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Msg-id 878xy5zgtt.fsf@gate450.dyndns.org
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In response to inserting non-ascii characters  ("Peter Schonefeld" <peter.schonefeld@bigpond.com>)
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Peter Schonefeld schrob:

> I'm having trouble finding out how to add non-ascii chars into the database
> from c#. 'ERROR: 22021: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UNICODE": 0xfc '
> is the error I get when attempting to add something like "müller" into a
> varchar field from my program.

I guess your client_encoding does not match the encoding of your data.
If the 0xfc is the "ü" in "müller", then your data is probably encoded
as latin-1 / iso-8859-1.

   set client_encoding to 'iso-8859-1';

before your statements should set up proper conversion.

HTH
Andreas
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