Thread: Could not convert UTF-8 character to ISO8859-1?

Could not convert UTF-8 character to ISO8859-1?

From

Bjørn T Johansen

Date:

24 July 2005, 16:42:25

I am trying to copy data from a MSSQL srv to PGSQL srv 8 using Delphi under Windows... But
I just keep getting this error... Why? (My PGSQL server is using LATIN1)
And how do I get around this?

BTW; I see in the log for my PGSQL server that someone is setting Client encoding to
UTF-8, but I am not... Is this some default setting in pgodbc or? I can't find any place
to change this value....


Regards,

BTJ

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Re: Could not convert UTF-8 character to ISO8859-1?

From

Ropel

Date:

24 July 2005, 17:40:28

As far as I know, UTF-8 is the standard encoding used by MSSQL.
ISO8859-1 is LATIN1, so the system is trying to convert (as the error message says) from utf-8 (SqlServer) to ISO8859-1 ( LATIN1 ).

So I think you have to search on the MSSQL side, not PostgreSql...

You can also use UNICODE encoding on postgres, creating your DB with CREATE DATABASE mydb ENCODING='UNICODE';

Hope this will give you some hints to solve the problem

Regards,
Roberto

Bjørn T Johansen wrote:

I am trying to copy data from a MSSQL srv to PGSQL srv 8 using Delphi under Windows... But
I just keep getting this error... Why? (My PGSQL server is using LATIN1)
And how do I get around this?

BTW; I see in the log for my PGSQL server that someone is setting Client encoding to
UTF-8, but I am not... Is this some default setting in pgodbc or? I can't find any place
to change this value....


Regards,

BTJ

Re: Could not convert UTF-8 character to ISO8859-1?

From

Bjørn T Johansen

Date:

24 July 2005, 17:52:21

I don't think you are correct... UTF-8 might be default on MSSQL, but it is the ODBC
connection to PGSQL that sets the client encoding to UTF-8... (I.e. when I just connect to
the PGSQL server, I get a statement in the PG log file that says "set client_encoding to
'UTF8'..

And I don't want to use UNICODE on my PG Server....

BTJ

Ropel wrote:
> As far as I know, UTF-8 is the standard encoding used by MSSQL.
> ISO8859-1 /_is_ /LATIN1, so the system is trying to convert (as the
> error message says) from utf-8 (SqlServer) to ISO8859-1 ( LATIN1 ).
>
> So I think you have to search on the MSSQL side, not PostgreSql...
>
> You can also use UNICODE encoding on postgres, creating your DB with
> CREATE DATABASE mydb ENCODING='UNICODE';
>
> Hope this will give you some hints to solve the problem
>
> Regards,
> Roberto
>
>
> Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
>
>>I am trying to copy data from a MSSQL srv to PGSQL srv 8 using Delphi under Windows... But
>>I just keep getting this error... Why? (My PGSQL server is using LATIN1)
>>And how do I get around this?
>>
>>BTW; I see in the log for my PGSQL server that someone is setting Client encoding to
>>UTF-8, but I am not... Is this some default setting in pgodbc or? I can't find any place
>>to change this value....
>>
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>BTJ
>>
>>
>>
>

Re: Could not convert UTF-8 character to ISO8859-1?

From

John DeSoi

Date:

24 July 2005, 18:23:23

On Jul 24, 2005, at 1:52 PM, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:

> I don't think you are correct... UTF-8 might be default on MSSQL,
> but it is the ODBC
> connection to PGSQL that sets the client encoding to UTF-8... (I.e.
> when I just connect to
> the PGSQL server, I get a statement in the PG log file that says
> "set client_encoding to
> 'UTF8'..
>
> And I don't want to use UNICODE on my PG Server....

After you login try executing "SET client_encoding TO LATIN1"

I don't use ODBC so I don't know if this will mess things up, but it
might be worth a try.

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL

Re: Could not convert UTF-8 character to ISO8859-1?

From

Bjørn T Johansen

Date:

24 July 2005, 21:27:04

Yes, that did the trick... I tried to execute the same statement at the same time as I did
the insert, but it needed to be in a separate statement....

Thx.... :)


BTJ

John DeSoi wrote:
>
> On Jul 24, 2005, at 1:52 PM, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
>
>> I don't think you are correct... UTF-8 might be default on MSSQL,  but
>> it is the ODBC
>> connection to PGSQL that sets the client encoding to UTF-8... (I.e.
>> when I just connect to
>> the PGSQL server, I get a statement in the PG log file that says  "set
>> client_encoding to
>> 'UTF8'..
>>
>> And I don't want to use UNICODE on my PG Server....
>
>
>
> After you login try executing "SET client_encoding TO LATIN1"
>
> I don't use ODBC so I don't know if this will mess things up, but it
> might be worth a try.
>
>
> John DeSoi, Ph.D.
> http://pgedit.com/
> Power Tools for PostgreSQL
>