Ð ÐÑÐ, 14.10.2004, Ð 06:28, Scott Chapman ÐÐÑÐÑ: > I'm getting Unicode errors when I export (with pg_dump) my database from > version 7.4 and then import it into a new 8.0 database (with psql). > > The situation is that this data has fields with ascii characters in them and > utf-8 characters also. Both types of characters are in a given field. The > entire dump is NOT utf-8 encoded.
ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, so every ASCII character is a UTF-8 character, too. > I can't figure out how to get this to be imported into the new database > without errors unless I turn the entire thing into utf-8 using recode. That > does not work well because the fields in question have to be utf8_decoded (in > php) TWICE before they display correctly. > > How do I deal with this? It's got me very puzzled! What encoding is the 7.4 database in? What encoding is the 8.0 database in? Did you set client_encoding? What's the error message? -- Markus Bertheau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html