Re: ascii to utf-8

From: Tomasz Ostrowski <tometzky(at)batory(dot)org(dot)pl>
To: Tom Hart <tomhart(at)coopfed(dot)org>
Cc: Tommy Gildseth <tommy(dot)gildseth(at)usit(dot)uio(dot)no>, Postgres General List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ascii to utf-8
Date: 2008-01-24 11:56:01
Message-ID: 20080124115601.GB19077@batory.org.pl
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Tom Hart wrote:

>>> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] COPY failed: ERROR: invalid byte sequence
>>> for encoding "UTF8": 0xc52f
>>
>> Try editing your dump-file and change the line which reads "SET
>> client_encoding = 'SQL_ASCII';" to "SET client_encoding = 'LATIN1';"
>
> I tried making the changes you specified with notepad, wordpad, gVim, vim
> and emacs and in each case pgAdmin (and pg_restore) complain about the dump
> header being corrupted.

Try an "-E LATIN1" option in pg_dump. Do you at least know what is
the encoding of data in the database?

Regards
Tometzky
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