On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 20:48 +0000, T E Schmitz wrote: > INSERT INTO item (name,retail_price) VALUES ('Cheese Soufflé',7.95,); > > (I presume you see the accented character in *Soufflé*) > > psql comes back with "invalid byte sequence for encoding "UNICODE": 0xe9" > If I do this via DbVisualizer, the record is inserted fine.
might be the client encoding. test=# CREATE DATABASE unitest with ENCODING='UNICODE'; CREATE DATABASE test=# \connect unitest You are now connected to database "unitest". unitest=# create table a (n text); CREATE TABLE unitest=# insert into a values ('Cheese Soufflé is cool'); ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UNICODE": 0xe92069 unitest=# set client_encoding='LATIN1'; SET unitest=# insert into a values ('Cheese Soufflé is cool'); INSERT 7533697 1 unitest=# select * from a; n ------------------------ Cheese Soufflé is cool (1 row) unitest=# gnari ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq