Mark Borins wrote: > My problem is that the values like \342 are for LATIN1 type encoding. > I have tried and failed to get this working using the what I think > is the Unicode escaping method \u0032 for example. There is no Unicode escaping method. You need to encode the characters into UTF-8 yourself and write out the individual bytes using the octal escape sequences. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend