Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:57:34 -0700
From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Alexis Paul Bertolini <bertolini@computer.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Changing character set when the damage is done
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On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 05:05:37PM +0100, Alexis Paul Bertolini wrote:
> They show up in PHP, PgAdminIII and psql. All the same. A lowercase e 
> with a grave accent appears as a capital A with the cedilla, followed by 
> an umlaut (just the umlaut, on its own). So to answer your question, 
> they are two characters.

Are you sure that's not a tilde (a wavy line above the A) instead
of a cedilla (a hook below the A)?  The UTF-8 encoding for lowercase e
with grave is 0xc3 0xa8, which in ISO-8859-1 (LATIN1) or Windows-1252
is uppercase A with tilde followed by a diaeresis (an umlaut on its
own).  Does the data appear correctly if you do either of the following?

SELECT convert(colname, 'utf8', 'latin1') FROM tablename;
SELECT convert(colname, 'utf8', 'win1252') FROM tablename;

If you use characters like "smart quotes" or the Euro sign then
you'll probably need to use win1252 instead of latin1.  Does the
following show a Euro sign or does it show blank?

SELECT convert('\342\202\254', 'utf8', 'win1252');

-- 
Michael Fuhr