Re: Encoding, character not shown correctly in pgAdmin or in query

I understand what you mean. Try All of the LATIN variations - LATIN1, LATIN2 ...., LATIN10

 
Siamo arrivati sani e salvi

On Saturday, February 15, 2014 7:39 AM, avpro avpro <avprowebeden(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

Hi,

I was saying that after I I imported the file with LATIN1 all unrecognized characters were replaced with "?".

On 15 February 2014 13:17, Gerald Cheves <gcheves(at)verizon(dot)net> wrote:

I had a similar problem. Try different encodings like this command:
>
>set client_encoding to 'LATIN1';
>
>Then:
>
>COPY filename
>FROM 'file/path/filename.csv'
>WITH  DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER;
>On 2/15/2014 6:18 AM, avpro avpro wrote:
>
>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>In postgresql 9.3 using pgAdmin, I created a table for my application developed in Qt Creator.
>>the table contains:
>>idstudent - pk
>>name
>>country
>>town
>>street
>>
>>
>>I would like to import a csv file containing all the info about these students. The file was saved/encoded in excel with UTF8 characters.
>>
>>When I'm importing my file in psql, using the encoding UTF8, I receive the following error for each character not recognized:
>>"error: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": ... " followed by the character code
>>
>>I tried to import the file using SQL_ASCII, I got similar errors.
>>I tried to import the file using MULE_INTERNAL and it worked, but the characters not recognized are not shown correct in pdAdmin and in my application when query is executed. For example after I imported the file with LATIN1 all unrecognized characters were replaced with "?".
>>
>>Any suggestion what encoding shall I use to display the characters correctly?
>>
>>note: the student's names and addresses are written using characters from North Europe, Eastern EU, Russia, South America, Asia, etc. everywhere.
>>
>>Thank you for your input.
>>
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