On Mon, 5 May 2003, Ian Barwick wrote:
> On Monday 05 May 2003 15:34, Marco Roda wrote:
> > Hallo,
> >
> > I need to use SQL to insert some language specific characters into tables.
> > In particular I am using German and Croatian specific characters. The
> > database is created with UNICODE encoding.
> > For instance, when trying to run from psql:
> >
> > INSERT INTO test VALUES (1,'Urlaubslite fόr nδchstes Jahr');
> >
> > I get the following error:
> >
> > ERROR: Invalid UNICODE character sequence found (0xfc7220)
> >
> > because of 'ό' and 'δ'.
>
> What is your psql client encoding set to? Possibly you need
> to set it to LATIN1.
The UTF8 version of Latin1 is Latin1 itself,
but german and iso8859-2 serbocroatian are
non Latin1 (high ASCII) chars.
>
> Ian Barwick
> barwick@gmx.net
>
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