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From: Ivo Rossacher <rossacher@bluewin.ch>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x92
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:03:12 +0100
Message-ID: <200703202103.12280.rossacher@bluewin.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY131-F9EB3EF541699B62FB5952B0750@phx.gbl>
References: <BAY131-F9EB3EF541699B62FB5952B0750@phx.gbl>

Am Dienstag, 20. März 2007 20:34 schrieb Karthikeyan Sundaram:
> Hi,
>
>    I am using postgres 8.2.3.  I have recently converted my database from
> sql-ascii to UTF8.  I have a portal which calls a perl program to insert
> the data into the database.
>
>     While inserting, I am getting an error message
>
> DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR:  invalid byte sequence for encoding
> "UTF8": 0x92
> [for Statement "INSERT INTO longdescs (bug_id, who, bug_when, thetext,
> isprivate)
>
>
> How can I set the client encoding in perl. Can somebody help me?
>
> Regards
> skarthi

After the connection is done send set client_encoding  to '<Encoding Perl is 
using>' to the server. The server then will convert the strings back and 
forward for you.
Se manual chapter 21.2 Character Set Support for more details.

Best regards
Ivo
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