I have batch files with entries such as INSERT INTO country VALUES (248,'ALA','AX','Åland Islands'); INSERT INTO country VALUES (384,'CIV','CI','Côte d\'Ivoire'); I tried to execute them using "pgsql \i filename.sql" Unfortunately, I keep getting an error message: "ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UNICODE": 0xc56c" How can that be possible? My database is set to encoding "UNICODE" and so are the batchfiles. Why does that not work? Thanks Matt ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org