On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 14:14 +0200, Thomas Pundt wrote: > pg_dump -t artik munttest | recode latin1..utf8 | psql muntfinal Because the source encoding is unknown (the actual source database was an ODBC source without known encoding that was copied with a C++ written to a SQL_ASCII PostgreSQL database) I used no source encoding: "pg_dump -t artik munttest | recode ..utf8 | psql muntfinal" and that worked: no errors. I just lost all diacritical chars as far as I can see (which is a minor and someone else's problem ;-)). Thanks for the sugggestion. Joost ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly