Re: [NOVICE] accented characters migraine

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Fri Oct 12 2007 - 12:48:35 EDT

John Gunther <postgresql@bucksvsbytes.com> writes:
> PROBLEM: Entering accented characters in psql often results in the
> error: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8"

> ENVIRONMENT:
> Terminal program: putty.exe, Translation: ISO-8859-1:1998 (Latin-1, West
> Europe)
> client_encoding: UTF8

Those two settings need to match up. PG can convert from latin1 to utf8, but only when you tell it the truth about what encoding the client is using.

                        regards, tom lane

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