Re: Maintaining accents with "COPY" ?

> Looks like an encoding issue and a mismatch between database encoding and client
> encoding. You can check both with:
>
> SHOW server_encoding;
> SHOW client_encoding;
>
> Then either set the client encoding or use COPY's encoding option to match the
> database encoding (I assume utf8 in this example):
>
> SET client_encoding = 'utf8';
> COPY (...) TO /tmp/bar.csv DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER ENCODING 'utf8';
>
> --
> Erik

Hi Erik,

Looks like you could well be right about encoding:

postgres=# SHOW server_encoding;
 server_encoding
-----------------
 UTF8
(1 row)

postgres=# SHOW client_encoding;
 client_encoding
-----------------
 SQL_ASCII
(1 row)

I will try your suggestion...