From: Matt Williams <matt@williams-tech.net>
To: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: utf8 database not dumping utf8 characters
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 23:28:09 -0400
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I ran it through xxd and the hex-bytes are different than those of the proper utf8 character:
03300a0: 7472 c383 c2b6 6d65 7209 3009 5c4e 0931 tr....mer.0.\N.1 (from the dump file)
ö : c3b6
ö : c383 c2b6
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Matt Williams
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On Friday, April 6, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Steve Crawford wrote:
> On 04/06/2012 01:10 PM, Matt Williams wrote:
> > With that same dump file that is displaying incorrectly open in vim, I
> > can paste in the utf8 character I provided as an example and it
> > displays correctly.
> >
>
> I usually find a good first step is to run the file through something
> that will give you a hex dump (i.e. xxd or similar) and so I *know* the
> actual bytes in the file rather than relying on how they may be
> interpreted somewhere else along the chain. Find the hex-byte(s) of your
> suspect character and look it up.
>
> Since you are in vim, it may be worth checking ":set termencoding",
> ":set encoding" and ":set fileencoding".
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
>
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