Thanks everyone for your help. I changed the encoding as directed on the PHP documentation provided by Leif to LATIN1 instead of the UTF-8. This resolved the issue and the records with £ and é inserted into the database without complaint.
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:36 PM, CR Lender <crlen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2013-05-15 00:31, Chris Angelico wrote: > > Which, in UTF-8, is represented by the byte sequence C2 A3. (The > > latter would be represented as EC 8A A3.) > > Right, my bad. > I read Unicode instead of UTF-8. > > - crl > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general >