I am not sure how I could encode the characters into UTF-8. For example, I went to Unicode.org and looked up in the specs for lets say an â is 00E2. If I wanted to do search for all names with an â in them how would I do that? 00E2 into Octal is: 342 So would I do: Select * from table where name like '%\342%' This leads to a greater question. I am trying to convert a Unicode DB to Latin1 because I realized we have absolutely no reason to be using Unicode. When I try to restore the back of a Unicode database into Latin1 I am getting some conversion errors as there are characters in Unicode that cannot be converted automatically into Latin1. These are erroneous characters and I would like to find them, I am give the hex value of the offending character. For example, 0x00E2, how would I search for this character? Thanks in advance for any help. -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Eisentraut Sent: May 6, 2005 2:12 AM To: Mark Borins Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Unicode and unaccent() 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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
