Re: [GENERAL] Problem with langage encoding

2008-11-26 Thread Ronald Vyhmeister
> The problem is that the database is UTF8, and it won't let me use the > convert_to function because it says that the characters don't exist... What > I need to do is to pull the UTF8 from the database, tell postgres that it's > 8859-1, and then convert it to WIN1251... How? >If the DB is in

[GENERAL] Problem with langage encoding

2008-11-26 Thread Ronald Vyhmeister
I've inherited a database system (including source)... It's Russian text (which I don't speak, but I need to work on it). On my screen it shows correctly, but in the database it shows a mess... from trying with a web browser. It appears that the data in the database is encoded with ISO-8859-1