Sorry, as Richard said the issue was me not converting bytea to text. The blow did it . thank you! SELECT convert_from((select decrypt(encrypt((select convert('aéiou','LATIN1', 'LATIN1')),'foo','aes'),'foo','aes')),'UNICODE') -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Naoko Reeves Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:38 PM To: Richard Huxton Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: does encrypt function support higher than basic ascii? I have tried: select decrypt(encrypt((select convert('aéiou','UTF8', 'LATIN1')),'foo','aes'),'foo','aes') select decrypt(encrypt((select convert('aéiou','UNICODE', 'LATIN1')),'foo','aes'),'foo','aes') select decrypt(encrypt((select convert('aéiou','LATIN1', 'LATIN1')),'foo','aes'),'foo','aes') but none of above seems to be resolving the issue... -----Original Message----- From: Richard Huxton [mailto:dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:14 PM To: Naoko Reeves Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: does encrypt function support higher than basic ascii? Naoko Reeves wrote: > Hello, > > I have the following statement and accent e doesn't seems to be > decrypted correctly. > > select decrypt(encrypt('aéiou','foo','aes'),'foo','aes') > > Could you tell me if there is an option for encoding or this function > only encrypt basic ascii? They take bytea rather than text and return bytea too. Does casting the result give you valid text? -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general