John Gunther <postgresql(at)bucksvsbytes(dot)com> writes:
> PROBLEM: Entering accented characters in psql often results in the
> error: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8"
> ENVIRONMENT:
> Terminal program: putty.exe, Translation: ISO-8859-1:1998 (Latin-1, West
> Europe)
> client_encoding: UTF8
Those two settings need to match up. PG can convert from latin1 to
utf8, but only when you tell it the truth about what encoding the client
is using.
regards, tom lane