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On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 20:48 +0000, T E Schmitz wrote:

> INSERT INTO item (name,retail_price) VALUES  ('Cheese Soufflé',7.95,);
> 
> (I presume you see the accented character in *Soufflé*)
> 
> psql comes back with "invalid byte sequence for encoding "UNICODE": 0xe9"
> If I do this via DbVisualizer, the record is inserted fine.

might be the client encoding.

test=# CREATE DATABASE unitest with ENCODING='UNICODE';
CREATE DATABASE
test=# \connect unitest
You are now connected to database "unitest".
unitest=# create table a (n text);
CREATE TABLE
unitest=# insert into a values ('Cheese Soufflé is cool');
ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UNICODE": 0xe92069
unitest=# set client_encoding='LATIN1';
SET
unitest=# insert into a values ('Cheese Soufflé is cool');
INSERT 7533697 1
unitest=# select * from a;
           n
------------------------
 Cheese Soufflé is cool
(1 row)

unitest=#


gnari