To: "Medi Montaseri" <montaseri@gmail.com>
cc: "Steve Midgley" <public@misuse.org>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: UTF8 encoding and non-text data types 
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Comments: In-reply-to "Medi Montaseri" <montaseri@gmail.com>
	message dated "Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:01:36 -0800"
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:22:52 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

"Medi Montaseri" <montaseri@gmail.com> writes:
> More specifically, I am using HTML, Perl and PG. So from the HTML point of
> view a textfield is just some strings. So my user would enter 12345 but
> expressed in UTF8. Perl would get this and use DBI to insert it into PG

> What I am experiencing now is that DB errors that I am trying to insert an
> incorrect data into column "cost" which is numeric and the data is coming in
> from HTML in UTF8

> Mybe I have to convert it to ASCII numbers in Perl before inserting  them
> into PG

Uh, there is *no* difference between the ASCII and UTF8 representations
of decimal digits, nor of any other character that would be allowed in
input for a decimal field.  I can't tell what your problem really is,
but you have certainly misunderstood or misexplained it.

			regards, tom lane