[GENERAL] Lossy character conversion to Latin-1

[John DeSoi]

I have a client that only supports Latin-1 and needs to connect to a  
UTF-8 database to retrieve some data. Some columns may contain  
characters that have no Latin-1 equivalent. I would like to convert  
these to a blank or perhaps some hex value. Is there any way to do  
this in PostgreSQL without using anything other than built in  
functions or pl/pgsql? It would be nice if the built in convert  
function had an option to handle this rather than only generating an  
error. Any pointers to an existing pl/pgsql function to perform this  
conversion?

Thanks,
John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL


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