Re: BUG #1775: UTF8 to ISO does not convert the german "sharp s" (ß )

> Bug reference: 1775
> Logged by: Marcus Raphelt
> Email address: marcus(at)raphelt(dot)de
> PostgreSQL version: latest
> Operating system: WinXP (dev), Win2000 (server)
> Description: UTF8 to ISO does not convert the german "sharp s"
> (ß)
> Details:
>
> Hi,
>
> I currently have a iso_8859_1 app and included the opengeodb
> tables to have a set of german cities and zipcodes.
>
> http://opengeodb.sourceforge.net/index.php?FrontPage_en
> I downloaded this dump:
>
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/opengeodb/opengeodb-0.2.3c-
> UTF8-postgres.
> zip?download
>
> They offer a Postgresql dump that can be imported without
> hassle, but is in UTF8. I did several attempts using
> convert() to convert the city names to iso. It works, and it
> also works fine on german umlauts (äöü), but it seems like
> convert() does NOT convert the german "ß" / sharp s / ß...

PostgreSQL 8.0 does not support UTF8 on Win32. You will need to convert the file before you load it into the database - look at for example the GNU iconv program to do this.

//Magnus