Re: UTF8 Vs Latin9 and valid encoding.

Hello,
Thanks for your reply.
When I execute
show client_encoding;
I get UNICODE.

However, up to know I was using pgAdmin III Query and
EMS... you gave me the idea to use psql, where I
noticed something interesting:

\encoding
UTF8

show client_encoding;
UTF8

So this seems to be OK..
However when I type áéíóúñ on screen I see ßØ«·±
Why would this be?

Thanks again

--- Markus Schaber <schabi(at)logix-tt(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi, Marcelo,
>
> Marcelo . wrote:
>
> > I receive the error msg:
> > ERROR: invalid UTF-8 byte sequence detected near
> byte
> > 0xf1
> >
> > Isn't UTF-8 the same as UNICODE where it
> encapsulates
> > all other coding schemes including latin9?
>
> Yes, it is.
>
> But it seems that your client and the server
> disagree on the encoding
> they use.
>
> I think the problem is that your client (psql, I
> presume) uses latin9 to
> communicate with the server, but the server assumes
> the client uses utf8.
>
> in psql, you can use \encoding to show the encoding
> psql uses, and "show
> client_encoding;" to show the encoding the server
> thinks the client uses.
>
> Try one of:
>
> SET client_encoding TO LATIN9; -- Tell server:
> client uses latin9
>
> \encoding LATIN9; -- Set clients encoding
>
> You can also set UTF-8 here, the server will convert
> between the client
> and database encoding (but it needs to know).
>
> HTH,
> Markus
>
>
>
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