Re: Character with byte sequence 0xa2 0xa3 in encoding "EUC_CN" has no equivalent in encoding "UTF8" - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

On Fri, May 1, 2026 at 9:59 PM Zhongpu Chen <chenloveit@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ## Description
>
> The legacy encodings allow some invalid bytes, which will cause errors during SELECT operations.
>
> ## How to reproduce
>
> ```shell
> createdb -E EUC_CN -T template0 --locale=C demo_euc_cn_db
> ```
>
> ```sql
> demo_euc_cn_db=# CREATE TABLE t(id int, s varchar(10));
>
> demo_euc_cn_db=# INSERT INTO t VALUES(1, E'\xA2\xA3');
> INSERT 0 1
> demo_euc_cn_db=# SELECT * FROM t WHERE id = 1;
> ERROR:  character with byte sequence 0xa2 0xa3 in encoding "EUC_CN" has no equivalent in encoding "UTF8"

Can you try the following statement before select?
SET client_encoding TO 'EUC_CN';

> ```
>
> --
> Zhongpu Chen



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Junwang Zhao