Re: utf8 errors

On 06/25/2013 12:18 PM, Jiří Pavlovský wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a win32 application. It uses gtk for GUI and postgres. Recently I
> upgraded to newer gtk and postgres 9.2. I'm now getting utf8 errors from
> postgres.
> The thing I don't understand that the queries, which postgres complains
> about, seem to be perfectly valid.
>
> For example
> LOG: statement: INSERT INTO recipients (DealID,
> Contactid) VALUES (29009, 9387)
> ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x9c
>
>
> But the query is clean ascii and it doesn't even contain the mentioned
> character.
>
> My database is in UNICODE, client encoding is utf8.

At a guess your client encoding is actually some form of WINXXXX, most
likely WIN1252.

>
> So I'm stuck not knowing where to look for a problem.
>
> Thank you,
> Jiri
>

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