On 2010-04-29, Andreas <maps...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while writing the reply below I found it sounds like beeing OT but it's
> actually not.
> I just need a way to check if a collumn contains values that CAN NOT be
> converted from Utf8 to Latin1.
> I tried:
> Select convert_to (my_column::text, 'LATIN1') from my_table;
>
> It raises an error that says translated:
> ERROR: character 0xe28093 in encoding »UTF8« has no equivalent in »LATIN1«
use a regular expression.
ISO8859-1 is easy, all the caracters a grouped together in unicode so
the regular expression consists of a single inverted range class
SELECT pkey FROM tabname
WHERE ( textfield || textfiled2 || textfield3 ) ~
('[^'||chr(1)||'-'||chr(255)||']');
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