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 16:10:46 -0400
Message-ID: <2F1A03239AE84E5F8217570AE41AA4C4@williams-tech.net> (raw)
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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.
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Matt Williams
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On Friday, April 6, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Steve Crawford wrote:
> On 04/06/2012 12:55 PM, Matt Williams wrote:
> > I have a database that is utf8 and displays utf8 values correctly in psql. When dumped, it displays the utf8 characters incorrectly. ie. ö turns into Ã
> >
> > In the header of the dump file, I have:
> >
> > SET client_encoding = 'UTF8';
> >
> > So I'm not sure where the disconnect is?
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Matt Williams
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> >
> With what are you viewing the dump file and is everything in the chain (terminal, less/vi/...) set to interpret/display that data as UTF8? You can always use a hex-dump program to see the actual bytes in the file and determine if they are what you expect for UTF8.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
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