I posted this to the pgsql general list, but alas, I did not get any responses. Perhaps someone here could be of assistance?
I have a database with some bad characters in it -- some users had entered MS Word smart quotes, em dashes, foreign characters, and they look like gibberish coming out of the database. Most important are the smart quotes I guess. What's the best way to replace these characters? I thought I might be able to run a simple SQL UPDATE command, but some of the gibberish for different characters looks the same (at least from my client it does), and it would clobber them all. I have a feeling there's some sort of ASCII code or unicode solution to this problem, but I could use am little push in the right direction. Thanks. Noah. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])