Jan-Peter Seifert wrote:
The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference:      4098
Logged by:          Jan-Peter Seifert
Email address:      [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PostgreSQL version: 8.2
Operating system:   Windows xp
Description:        Encoding problems
Details:
The encoding of the source db/server is LATIN1. The data type of the field
is text (The storage mode is extended). It's/was possible to add characters
available in CP1252 but not in LATIN1 like the Euro character (code 80).
When exporting to UTF8 via "pg_dump -o -U postgres -E UTF-8 ..." (iconv?) it
just adds the character with the code "C2" before the Euro character in the
dump.

Yes, but if you do that, PostgreSQL doesn't know that code 0x80 actually means the Euro character. That's why the conversion to UTF-8 doesn't work the way you expected.

You should've created the database with WIN1252 encoding instead to begin with.

I think you can fix that by dumping the database in LATIN1 encoding, modifying "client_encoding" line in the dump file to 'WIN1252', and importing it back.

--
  Heikki Linnakangas
  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com

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