Re: Postgres Encoding conversion problem

On 04/23/2008 04:33 PM, Albe Laurenz wrote:
> Michael Fuhr wrote:
>>>> I sometimes have a problem with conversion of encodings eg from UTF-8
>>>> tio ShiftJIS:
>>>>
>>>> ERROR:  character 0xf0a0aeb7 of encoding "UTF8" has no
>>>> equivalent in "SJIS"
>>>>
>>>> I have no idea what character this is, I cannot view it in my
>>>> browser, etc.
>>> It translates to Unicode 10BB7, which is not defined.
>> Actually it's <U+20BB7 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-20BB7>.
>
> Oops, you're correct. Made an error in my calculations. Thanks.
>
> So that explains the problem.
> Still, to handle it, the offending character needs to be changed before
> converting to SJIS.

probably wont get around a clean up before writing script. *sigh* Or
export the data in UTF-8 ...

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