Adding -general back to the distribution list. Please do a reply-all. Even if you tell psql what encoding to use, if the database is created with the wrong encoding it might not be able to differentiate between the two strings. -----Original Message----- From: anakreonmejdi@xxxxxxxx [mailto:anakreonmejdi@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Sat 3/4/2006 9:46 AM To: Jim Nasby Cc: Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Insert fails when it shouldn't To execute the insert statements I use psql.