Hi all, I'm having a problem with unicode support in postgres under linux. The issue is that I am copying lots of data from an MS SQL Server database via java/jdbc running on Windows XP over to a postgres database running on linux. I've setup the postgres database as follows: LANG=C initdb -E UNICODE createdb -E UNICODE And then when I'm transferring the data, when my program tries to send a string containing a character 0xF6 (Latin small letter o with diaeresis), then I get a JDBC exception & an error log on the server as follows: ERROR: invalid multibyte character for locale HINT: The server's LC_CTYPE locale is probably incompatible with the database encoding. I have tried setting locale/lc_ctype to C, POSIX, iso_8859_1, all kinds of things, and nothing seems to fix it. If I setup the database as follows: LANG=C initdb -E iso8859_1 createdb -E iso8859_1 Then it appears to work OK - but I then get an error with character 0xE2 (Latin small letter a with circumflex): ERROR: could not convert UTF-8 character 0x00e2 to ISO8859-1 Does anyone know how to do correctly do this? This is my environment: LINUX: DEBIAN 3.0, KERNEL 2.4 running on a 2CPU PC. Postgres: 8.0.1 built from source, no changes to anything, running on the linux box. JDBC driver: postgresql-8.0-310.jdbc3.jar Java JVM (Sun) 1.4.2_02 on Windows XP SP2. If I run postgres on the Windows XP machine (configured for UNICODE as above), then I don't have any errors at all. This only happens on the linux box. Any help in fixing this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, --Jatinder Sangha Coalition Development ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
