Tirsdag 14. mai 2013 18.05.05 skrev Rebecca Clarke: > Hi there. > > This may be the wrong forum to inquire in, but I'd be grateful if I could > directed in the right direction if that is the case. > > I am currently using Postgresql 9.1. > > I have a table in which I want to store shop names. Some of the shop names > contain 'é' and '£'. > > The query below works when I run it through pg_admin: > > insert into retail(storename) values ('£'::character varying) > > However, when I run the same query through pg_query in PHP, I get: > > PHP Warning: pg_query(): Query failed: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for > encoding "UTF8": 0xa3 It's possibly a client encoding problem. See the PHP documentation on http://php.net/manual/en/function.pg-set-client-encoding.php regards, Leif -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general