Re: Postgres Encoding conversion problem

From: "Albe Laurenz" <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
To: "Clemens Schwaighofer *EXTERN*" <cs(at)tequila(dot)co(dot)jp>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgres Encoding conversion problem
Date: 2008-04-22 08:37:59
Message-ID: D960CB61B694CF459DCFB4B0128514C202043649@exadv11.host.magwien.gv.at
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Clemens Schwaighofer wrote:
> I sometimes have a problem with conversion of encodings eg from UTF-8
> tio ShiftJIS:
>
> ERROR: character 0xf0a0aeb7 of encoding "UTF8" has no
> equivalent in "SJIS"
>
> I have no idea what character this is, I cannot view it in my
> browser, etc.

It translates to Unicode 10BB7, which is not defined.
I guess that is not intended; can you guess what the character(s) should be?

> If I run the conversion through PHP with mb_convert_encoding it works,
> perhaps he is ignoring the character.
>
> Is there a way to do a similar thing, like ignoring this character in
> postgres too?

As far as I know, no.
You'll have to fix the data before you import them.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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