On Feb 9, 2008 7:28 PM, Mike Blackwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a database which was originally created with LATIN1 encoding. > I'd like to move it to UTF8. The data will load ok (COPY) but I am > getting 'invalid byte sequence for encoding..." messages when accessing > the data. > > Is there a way to automatically convert the offending characters, or to > easily locate them in a pg_dump file so they can be converted by hand? > >
Try using 'iconv' for your dump file and convert it all to UTF8 first before restoring to a UTF8 database. -- Shoaib Mir Fujitsu Australia Software Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED]
