encoding question

From: Warren Little <Warren(dot)Little(at)MeridiasCapital(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: encoding question
Date: 2007-05-03 19:45:28
Message-ID: EE41CBAF-18CE-470F-9D5F-5483FAB60FB3@MeridiasCapital.com
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I'm getting the following error from a query being generated from MS
Access :
character 0xefbfbd of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in "LATIN9"

Upon reviewing the archives I found the following:

"Kevin McCarthy" <kemccarthy1 ( at ) gmail ( dot ) com> writes:
> Often users will copy and paste text directly from MS Word docs
into the
> forms which will invariably contain Microsoft's proprietary
formatting of
> characters such as 'smart' quotes, trademark, copyright symbols,
accent
> grave, etc. We've set the HTML pages as UTF-8 and the database
connection to
> UTF-8. However when our calls to import the data that includes any
of these
> characters into the database, the queries fail complaining that e.g.
> "[nativecode=ERROR: character 0xe28093 of encoding "UTF8" has no
equivalent
> in "LATIN9"]"

That error suggests that your database encoding is LATIN9, not UTF-8.
You need to change it. Beware that you need the server's locale
settings to be in step, too.

regards, tom lane

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So I ran
tigris=# show server_encoding;
server_encoding
-----------------
UTF8
(1 row)

and

tigris=# show client_encoding;
client_encoding
-----------------
UTF8
(1 row)

What else should I be looking at?

thanks

Warren Little
Chief Technology Officer
Meridias Capital Inc
ph 866.369.7763

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