Hi, I am upgrading from 7.4.8 -> 8.1.2 on Linux 2.6.14.3 #1 SMP I have installed 8.1.2 and created the database (with encoding 'UNICODE', as I had done in 7.4.8) and am trying to load a 7.4.8 dump file but I am getting a few errors like this: psql:bugasbase2-backup:45880: ERROR: invalid UTF-8 byte sequence detected near byte 0xb5 CONTEXT: COPY array_scheme, line 17560, column gene_identifier: "B?G@S (0G11)" This dump file will load error free into 7.4.8. Does anybody have any ideas why this is failing in 8.1.2? Thanks for any help Adam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.