On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Brian Modra <epailty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
2009/11/26 Melanie Hofmann <helpmisterx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hello,Melanie, I am posting this in the off-chance that it may help you. I
>
> I'm a very big problem. I want to load shapefiles in a postgresql with
> shp2pgsql and psql. So i create the statement on a windows DOS console. I
> get below error FEHLER: ungültige Byte-Sequenz für Kodierung UTF8 0xd627.
>
> My Client_encoding is
>
> template_postgis=# SHOW CLIENT_ENCODING;
> client_encoding
> -----------------
> UTF8
> (1 row)
>
> and my database encoding is also UTF8, only my shapefile is not in UTF8.
faced the same problem as you about 3 years ago, and have not thought
about it since. I put this at the top of the SQL file that I generate
for inserting into the database (other SQLs generated by shp2sql)
set client_encoding to 'LATIN1';
Or try 'ASCII' if 'LATIN1' doesn't work.
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> I make a few trails to change the client encoding, but nothing realy works.
>
> What can I do?
> Can anybody help me?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards MisterX
>
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