Craig Ringer <cr...@postnewspapers.com.au> writes: > On 1/12/2009 7:36 PM, DM wrote: >> select convert('Vall\xe9e','LATIN1','UTF8');
> You expect the result 'Vallée', right? As in the utf-8 bytes > Vall\xc3\xa9e > ? The whole thing seems like an exercise in unnecessary pain anyway. Why not just set client_encoding to LATIN1 and send your strings as-is, letting the server deal with the encoding conversion automatically? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs