Re: character 0xe29986 of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in "LATIN2" - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alban Hertroys
Subject Re: character 0xe29986 of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in "LATIN2"
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Msg-id 99CAFE78-636A-40B2-91DA-A954DE978CD6@solfertje.student.utwente.nl
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In response to character 0xe29986 of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in "LATIN2"  (Andreas Kalsch <andreaskalsch@gmx.de>)
Responses Re: character 0xe29986 of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in "LATIN2"
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On 3 Aug 2009, at 20:32, Andreas Kalsch wrote:

> Problem: Users will enter _any_ characters in my application and an
> error really doesn't help in this case.


I think the real problem is: Where do you lose the original encoding
the users input their data with? If you specify that encoding on the
connection and send it to a database that can handle UTF-8 then you
shouldn't be getting any conversion problems in the first place.

Alban Hertroys

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