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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:44:32 +0200
From: Thomas Beutin <psql@laokoon.IN-Berlin.DE>
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To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
CC: Milen Kulev <makulev@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: UTF-8 Problem ?
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Hi Milen,

Milen Kulev wrote:
> Hi Listers,
> I want to insert some german specific characters (umlaut characters) into a table, but I am getting  the following 
> Error message:
> postgres=# EXECUTE  stmt (1, 1 , 1 , 'Grün')  ;
> ERROR:  invalid UTF-8 byte sequence detected near byte 0xfc
> 
> Or 
> 
> postgres=# EXECUTE  stmt (1, 1 , 1 , 'MAßßtab') ;
> ERROR:  invalid UTF-8 byte sequence detected near byte 0xdf
> 
> Here are my object/statement definitions :
> 
> A) PREPARE  stmt( int, int, int, varchar) as insert  INTO  part values ($1,$2,$3,$4);
> 
> B) 
> postgres=# \d+ part
>                     Table "public.part"
>  Column |          Type          | Modifiers | Description
> --------+------------------------+-----------+-------------
>  id1    | integer                | not null  |
>  id2    | integer                | not null  |
>  id3    | integer                | not null  |
>  filler | character varying(200) |           |
> 
> C) 
> 
> postgres=# l\l
>        List of databases
>     Name    | Owner | Encoding
> ------------+-------+-----------
>  db1        | user1 | SQL_ASCII
>  postgres   | pg    | UTF8
>  template0  | pg    | UTF8
>  template1  | pg    | UTF8
> 
> 
> How to solve my problem ?

You should insert only correct utf8 strings or set the client encoding
correctly:
SET client_encoding = 'LATIN1';
or
SET client_encoding = 'LATIN9';

IIRC postgresql must be compiled with --enable-recode to support this.

Regards,
-tb