Re: The server's LC_CTYPE locale

For the record:

Those are the records in my locale.gen

# cat /etc/locale.gen.old
en_US ISO-8859-1
he_IL UTF-8
he_IL ISO-8859-8

I found out that by removing "he_IL ISO-8859-8" i fixed the problem.

Why ? i have no idea ( maybe some collisions because the double he_IL ? ).

Cheers

Michael Ben-Nes wrote:

> Hello
>
>
> Im got the following error when the query string was one of the Hebrew
> chars:
>
>
> SELECT upper('ש');
> ERROR: invalid multibyte character for locale
> HINT: The server's LC_CTYPE locale is probably incompatible with the
> database encoding.
>
>
> after few minutes while gathering info i stoped getting the previous
> error and started to get:
>
>
> #SELECT lower('ש');
> ERROR: invalid UTF-8 byte sequence detected near byte 0xf9
>
> # SELECT upper('ש');
> ERROR: invalid UTF-8 byte sequence detected near byte 0xf9
>
>
> #SELECT version();
> PostgreSQL 8.1.3 on i486-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) 4.0.3
> (Debian 4.0.3-1)
>
>
> #show lc_ctype ;
> he_IL.utf8
>
>
> #SHOW SERVER_ENCODING;
> UTF8
>
> Any ideas what the problem ?
>
>

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