From: | "Noah Davis" <noah(at)acadaca(dot)com> |
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To: | <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Bad character data |
Date: | 2004-05-03 19:23:40 |
Message-ID: | 200405031524353.SM01356@Pedro |
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I posted this to the pgsql general list, but alas, I did not get any
responses. Perhaps someone here could be of assistance?
I have a database with some bad characters in it -- some users had entered
MS Word smart quotes, em dashes, foreign characters, and they look like
gibberish coming out of the database. Most important are the smart quotes I
guess.
What's the best way to replace these characters? I thought I might be able
to run a simple SQL UPDATE command, but some of the gibberish for different
characters looks the same (at least from my client it does), and it would
clobber them all.
I have a feeling there's some sort of ASCII code or unicode solution to this
problem, but I could use am little push in the right direction.
Thanks.
Noah.
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