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From: Junwang Zhao <[email protected]>
To: Zhongpu Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Character with byte sequence 0xa2 0xa3 in encoding "EUC_CN" has no equivalent in encoding "UTF8"
Date: Sat, 2 May 2026 09:25:20 +0800
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On Sat, May 2, 2026 at 12:09 AM Zhongpu Chen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> ```
> demo_euc_cn_db=# SET client_encoding TO 'EUC_CN';
> SET
> demo_euc_cn_db=# SELECT * FROM t WHERE id = 1;
>  id | s
> ----+----
>   1 | ��
> (1 row)
> ```
>
> Since 0xA2A3 is invalid in EUC-CN, it cannot be mapped to any meaningful character. Currently, EUC-CN allows all 2-byte within A1-EF, but this coarse-grained approach is flawed.

This seems more like a feature request than a bug. It would make sense
to close the bug report and start a discussion on the hackers mailing
list instead.

>
> On Fri, May 1, 2026 at 11:07 PM Junwang Zhao <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, May 1, 2026 at 9:59 PM Zhongpu Chen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > ## Description
>> >
>> > The legacy encodings allow some invalid bytes, which will cause errors during SELECT operations.
>> >
>> > ## How to reproduce
>> >
>> > ```shell
>> > createdb -E EUC_CN -T template0 --locale=C demo_euc_cn_db
>> > ```
>> >
>> > ```sql
>> > demo_euc_cn_db=# CREATE TABLE t(id int, s varchar(10));
>> >
>> > demo_euc_cn_db=# INSERT INTO t VALUES(1, E'\xA2\xA3');
>> > INSERT 0 1
>> > demo_euc_cn_db=# SELECT * FROM t WHERE id = 1;
>> > ERROR:  character with byte sequence 0xa2 0xa3 in encoding "EUC_CN" has no equivalent in encoding "UTF8"
>>
>> Can you try the following statement before select?
>> SET client_encoding TO 'EUC_CN';
>>
>> > ```
>> >
>> > --
>> > Zhongpu Chen
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>> Junwang Zhao
>
>
>
> --
> Zhongpu Chen



-- 
Regards
Junwang Zhao

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