Thread: encoding question

I'm getting the following error from a query being generated from MS Access :

character 0xefbfbd of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent in "LATIN9"

Upon reviewing the archives I found the following:

"Kevin McCarthy" <kemccarthy1 ( at ) gmail ( dot ) com> writes:

> Often users will copy and paste text directly from MS Word docs into the

> forms which will invariably contain Microsoft's proprietary formatting of

> characters such as 'smart' quotes, trademark, copyright symbols, accent

> grave, etc. We've set the HTML pages as UTF-8 and the database connection to

> UTF-8. However when our calls to import the data that includes any of these

> characters into the database, the queries fail complaining that e.g.

> "[nativecode=ERROR:  character 0xe28093 of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent

> in "LATIN9"]"

That error suggests that your database encoding is LATIN9, not UTF-8.

You need to change it.  Beware that you need the server's locale

settings to be in step, too.

regards, tom lane

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So I ran 

tigris=# show server_encoding;

server_encoding

-----------------

UTF8

(1 row)

and

tigris=# show client_encoding;

client_encoding

-----------------

UTF8

(1 row)

What else should I be looking at?

thanks

Warren Little

Chief Technology Officer

Meridias Capital Inc

ph 866.369.7763