Re: How do I change the server encoding? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: How do I change the server encoding?
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0302251915090.2581-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: How do I change the server encoding?  (Philippe Kiener <philippe.kiener@eivd.ch>)
Responses Re: How do I change the server encoding?  (Joseph Shraibman <jks@selectacast.net>)
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Philippe Kiener writes:

> My database should be transform from SQL_ASCII to utf-8
>
> I have added that line to my dumps:
>
> SET CLIENT_ENCODING TO 'SQL_ASCII';
>
> Now when I load the dump into my db, I get that error on tables with text:
>
> psql:tcom-database.sql:7111: ERROR:  copy: line 1, Invalid UNICODE character
> sequence found (0xe96500)

The client encoding SQL_ASCII means that the data will be passed through
unchanged.  Try setting it to LATIN1.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net


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