Thread: speaks psql unicode?

Hi,

if i try to import data via SQL-Inserts (exported with pgManager) out
from an utf-8 file i get always parse errors in the first line.

After switching to ascii and using of SET client_encoding TO 'latin1'
i can import all lines, but some unicode-characters are, like
expected, damaged.

Now my question: Can psql process Unicodefiles?

Thanks for any tipp,
thomas

On Jan 10, 2005, at 10:20 AM, Thomas Chille wrote:

> if i try to import data via SQL-Inserts (exported with pgManager) out
> from an utf-8 file i get always parse errors in the first line.
>
> After switching to ascii and using of SET client_encoding TO 'latin1'
> i can import all lines, but some unicode-characters are, like
> expected, damaged.
>
> Now my question: Can psql process Unicodefiles?

Sure. Try this at the top of your file:

\encoding UNICODE

I think you could also set the ENCODING variable on the command line
with the -v option.


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