Re: Unicode support problem - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tatsuo Ishii
Subject Re: Unicode support problem
Date
Msg-id 20050225.100922.68032840.t-ishii@sra.co.jp
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In response to Unicode support problem  ("Jatinder Sangha" <js@coalitiondev.com>)
List pgsql-general
> If I setup the database as follows:
> LANG=C
> initdb -E iso8859_1
> createdb -E iso8859_1
>
> Then it appears to work OK - but I then get an error with character 0xE2
> (Latin small letter a with circumflex):
> ERROR:  could not convert UTF-8 character 0x00e2 to ISO8859-1

The error message says all. You are trying to convert an UTF-8
character starting with 0x00e2 to ISO-8859-1, which does not exist in
the world. All ISO-8859-1 chars in UTF-8 are below 0x00e0 range.
Probably you mixed up with ISO-8859-2 or any other characters other
than ISO-8859-1?
--
Tatsuo Ishii

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