On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 07:55:01AM +0200, Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote: > I've somehow introduced a spurious UTF-8 character in my database. When I try > to export to an application that requires LATIN1 encoding, my export script > bombs out with this message: > > psycopg2.DataError: character 0xe2808e of encoding "UTF8" has no equivalent > in > "LATIN1"
I see you found it, but note that it's _not_ a spurious UTF-8 character: it's a right-to-left mark, ans is a perfectly ok UTF-8 code point. If you need a subset of the UTF-8 character set, you want to make sure you have some sort of constraint in your application or your database that prevents insertion of anything at all in UTF-8. This is a need people often forget when working in an internationalized setting, because there's a lot of crap that comes from the client side in a UTF-8 setting that might not come in other settings (like LATIN1). Best, A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@crankycanuck.ca -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
