Oh, sorry for that. My client code is Npgsql. I pulled those bytes from a debugging session directly from the network stream. I wanted to know what bytes npgsql was receiving.
This is the method which reads the data: public static String ReadString(Stream network_stream) { NpgsqlEventLog.LogMethodEnter(LogLevel.Debug, CLASSNAME, "ReadString"); List<byte> buffer = new List<byte>(); for (int bRead = network_stream.ReadByte(); bRead != 0; bRead = network_stream.ReadByte()) { if (bRead == -1) { throw new IOException(); } else { buffer.Add((byte) bRead); } } if (NpgsqlEventLog.Level >= LogLevel.Debug) NpgsqlEventLog.LogMsg(resman, "Log_StringRead", LogLevel.Debug, ENCODING_UTF8.GetString(buffer.ToArray())); return ENCODING_UTF8.GetString(buffer.ToArray()); } My database has encoding set to UTF-8 although my lc_collate is pt.BR.UTF-8 this lc setting my have cause some trouble? I also have problems with psql client where the char doesn't appear at all. Andreas could see the char though... I hope it helps. Thanks in advance. -- Sent from my Android phone Francisco Figueiredo Jr. Npgsql lead developer fxjr.blogspot.com twitter.com/franciscojunior Em 18/03/2011 01:29, "Tom Lane" <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> escreveu: