I have a database that was created with the encoding set to SQL_ASCII. A lot of data comes with accented characters. When reading this data with PHP, and using utf-8 as my broweser output charset, any accented characters are displayed as weird symbols. If I use the PHP function utf8_encode() around the data, it all looks fine again.
So, I have decided to simply change the encoding of my database from SQL_ASCII to UNICODE so that I do not need to use utf8_enocde() in PHP.
I did a pg_dump of my database. I then created a blank database with UNICODE as the encoding. However, pg_restore chokes with a message about not being able to convert a multibyte character properly.
My server settings are en-US.UTF-8 for lc_collate and server encoding is set to UNICODE.
How can I reload all my data into the UNICODE database I have created? Is there something to do with the dump? I hope not!! Any tips on this most appreciated!!
