Re: iso-8859-1 and utf-8

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Claus Guttesen <kometen(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I found out by accident that my db-dump, at least in ver. 8.3.3,
> automagically converts from iso-8859-1 to utf-8. Our db has been
> around since January 2000 and iso-8859-1 was chosen back then as
> encoding. When I occasionally imported the nightly dump to a test-db
> it would complain very early during the import and abort if the
> encoding was incorrect. I think this was also the case with 8.3.1
> although I'm not certain.

I'm guessing that the client encoding is set to utf-8 instead of
iso-8859-1 on the client end. pg automatically converts to the client
encoding of the user connecting / environment.

I know that at least 8.2 supports the -E switch to set client encoding.

psql --help
MUCH SNIPPED:
-E, --encoding=ENCODING dump the data in encoding ENCODING