Re: how can I fix my accent issues?

On 12/11/23 10:54, Igniris Valdivia Baez wrote:
> hello to all, thanks for your answers i've changed the encoding using this:
> ALTER DATABASE testdb
> SET client_encoding = WIN1252;
> 
> now when we try to select data from a table we get this error:
> 
> ERROR: character with byte sequence 0xe2 0x80 0x8b in encoding "UTF8"
> has no equivalent in encoding "WIN1252" SQL state: 22P05ERROR:
> character with byte sequence 0xe2 0x80 0x8b in encoding "UTF8" has no
> equivalent in encoding "WIN1252" SQL state: 22P05
> 
> i want to clarify that the postgres on dev is in a docker environment
> that already have databases in it so we can't change encoding for the
> hole container

You don't have to:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/manage-ag-templatedbs.html

Another common reason for copying template0 instead of template1 is that 
new encoding and locale settings can be specified when copying 
template0, whereas a copy of template1 must use the same settings it 
does. This is because template1 might contain encoding-specific or 
locale-specific data, while template0 is known not to.

> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> El sáb, 9 dic 2023 a las 1:01, Laurenz Albe
> (<laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>) escribió:
>>
>> On Fri, 2023-12-08 at 23:58 -0500, Igniris Valdivia Baez wrote:
>>> hello, I have an ETL process collecting data from a postgresql
>>> database and xls files and inserting in a postgresql database that
>>> process occurs great in a local DB in postgres 14 with UTF8
>>> codification and Spanish_Cuba.1952 collation but when I execute that
>>> process in dev which is in postgres 15 and UTF8 with collation
>>> en_US.utf8 the words with accents and ñ looks like an interrogation
>>> symbol, what can I do to fix this?
>>
>> If the data you are sending are encoded in WINDOWS-1252 (I assume that
>> "1952" is just a typo), you should set the client encoding to WIN1252,
>> so that PostgreSQL knows how to convert the data correctly.
>>
>> You can do that in several ways; the simplest might be to set the
>> environment variable PGCLIENTENCODING to WIN1252.
>>
>> Yours,
>> Laurenz Albe
> 
> 

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