Re: [GENERAL] unconvertable characters

2007-07-18 Thread Sim Zacks
I fixed my data, but I did it manually. It seems like there were hidden characters, which may actually be the 0xc2 (which should not have been there. The data must have been pasted in somehow, but when I copied the value and pasted it back in (or ran an update statement, I tried both) the same

Re: [GENERAL] unconvertable characters

2007-07-16 Thread Sim Zacks
Michael, I have been manually debugging and each symbol is different, though they each give the same error code. For example, in one it was a pound sign, though when I did an update and put in the pound sign it worked. Another time it was the degree symbol. I'm going to look at iconv as that so

Re: [GENERAL] unconvertable characters

2007-07-16 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 04:20:22PM +0300, Sim Zacks wrote: > My 8.0.1 database is using ISO_8859_8 encoding. When I select specific > fields I get a warning: > WARNING: ignoring unconvertible ISO_8859_8 character 0x00c2 Did any of the data originate on Windows? Might the data be in Windows-1255

[GENERAL] unconvertable characters

2007-07-16 Thread Sim Zacks
My 8.0.1 database is using ISO_8859_8 encoding. When I select specific fields I get a warning: WARNING: ignoring unconvertible ISO_8859_8 character 0x00c2 I now want to upgrade my database to 8.2.4 and change the encoding to UTF-8. When the restore is done, I get the following errors: pg_restor