> 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
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