Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: Could not convert UTF-8 to ISO8859-1

2005-04-28 Thread John D. Burger
Why does postgresql issue the error message "ERROR: Could not convert UTF-8 to ISO8859-1", when I execute a select statement after I changed the client encoding to latin1 ??? Because every UTF8 character cannot necessarily be encoded as Latin1. Unicode has more than 64, characters, Latin1 ha

[GENERAL] ERROR: Could not convert UTF-8 to ISO8859-1

2005-04-28 Thread Fritz Bayer
Hello, my database encodes data as utf8. The data I want to select contains characters like äöü. If I select some columns and change the encoding to latin1, then I get the following error message: select created, keywords from requests; ERROR: Could not convert UTF-8 to ISO8859-1 If I set the