On Jul 2, 12:39 am, pie...@xxxxxxxxxxxx (John R Pierce) wrote: > On 07/01/10 2:27 PM, aaaawwww wrote: > > > Sorry I forgot to say I am running an Italian php website with a > > postgresql DB. Users can write messages eachothers. > > This is my code: > > $connessione_db = pg_connect("dbname=xxxxx user=yyyyy > > password=zzzzzz"); > > $sql_insert_messaggio="insert into messaggio (text) values ('àèì');"; > > pg_exec ($connessione_db,$sql_insert_messaggio); > > > and I get that error. If I do not write messages with accents > > everything works. > > > Is there a way to insert accents with any kind of encoding? > > is your source code UTF-8 or is it ISO-8559-3 aka LATIN3 or something ? > > you probably need to set your client_encoding according to the charset > used in the source SQL statements. > > SET CLIENT_ENCODING='LATIN3'; > > when you do the inserts, the data will be converted from your > CLIENT_ENCODING to the proper database eencoding which is likely UTF8 > per your error... and when you read it back, it will be converted back > to the current CLIENT_ENCODING > > since this is a web app, do be sure your CLIENT_ENCODING matches the > mime type of your generated web pages... > > -- > Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-gene...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) > To make changes to your subscription:http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general thank you. I did not change anything on my php scripts. I had <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> on my web pages, so I converted it in <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> and then everything worked! Thank you again. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general