Re: help with utf8 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Hugo
Subject Re: help with utf8
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Msg-id f3d9ba990512010833h41c41c37s@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: help with utf8  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
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Richard,

I have to import data from a CSV file with the pgsql COPY command, I just know that this file comes from an old program written in Clipper (or something like under linux) , my database was created with UTF8,  I cant find how to create it with UTF-16 on windows, what is the recomended encoding for Postgres on windows spanish version.

Yes, the problem is in that point , it shoud read "ALEJO GARCIA Nº 367".

thanks for you help

Hugo


On 01/12/05, Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> wrote:
Hugo wrote:
> don't know if this is the best solution but I dropped the database and
> recreated it with SQL_ASCII instead of UTF-8 and everything worked as
> expected

It would SQL_ASCII just accepts whatever it's given.

Hugo - a quick tip for future questions, just post the text of the
message not a picture of it. The picture is much larger than the text
and can't be indexed by Google or the mailing-list archive software.

The error you are getting is "invalid UTF-8 byte sequence". I would
guess it's the point in the data marked by the question-mark: "ALEJO
GARCIA N?367"

1. Are you sure that the byte-sequence you have is UTF-8 (and not UTF-16
or other)?
2. How have you tested this?

--
   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd

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