Re: UTF8 encoding problem - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Giorgio Valoti
Subject Re: UTF8 encoding problem
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Msg-id BD241A58-9AA3-4255-AE32-43EA665EAB0B@mac.com
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In response to Re: UTF8 encoding problem  (Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>)
Responses Re: UTF8 encoding problem  (Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>)
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On 18/giu/08, at 03:04, Michael Fuhr wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:48:34PM +0100, Garry Saddington wrote:
>> I am getting illegal UTF8 encoding errors and I have traced it to
>> the £ sign.
>
> What's the exact error message?
>
>> I have set lc_monetary to "lc_monetary = 'en_GB.UTF-8'" in
>> postgresql.conf but
>> this has no effect. How can I sort this problem? Client_encoding
>> =UTF8.
>
> Is the data UTF-8?  If the error is 'invalid byte sequence for
> encoding
> "UTF8": 0xa3' then you probably need to set client_encoding to latin1,
> latin9, or win1252.

Why?

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Giorgio Valoti

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