Re: UTF8 encoding problem

From: Garry Saddington <garry(at)schoolteachers(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: UTF8 encoding problem
Date: 2008-06-18 06:30:41
Message-ID: 200806180730.41355.garry@schoolteachers.co.uk
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On Wednesday 18 June 2008 02:04, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:48:34PM +0100, Garry Saddington wrote:
> > I am getting illegal UTF8 encoding errors and I have traced it to the £
> > sign.
>
> What's the exact error message?
>
> > I have set lc_monetary to "lc_monetary = 'en_GB.UTF-8'" in
> > postgresql.conf but this has no effect. How can I sort this problem?
> > Client_encoding =UTF8.
>
> Is the data UTF-8? If the error is 'invalid byte sequence for encoding
> "UTF8": 0xa3' then you probably need to set client_encoding to latin1,
> latin9, or win1252.
>
Thanks, that's fixed it.
Garry

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