On 3/16/06 12:41 AM, "Michael Glaesemann" <grzm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I hope you didn't take my comments as a suggestion: I think you > *should* preprocess your data and use UTF8 as the default encoding > (or another encoding that includes all of the characters you hope to > use) for your database. Yeah, after thinking about it some more, it probably isn't such a good idea - it would make the database act rather strange with non U.S. Data. I really hate to have to burn the cycles to validate anything that looks like extended UTF-8 characters, only to have Postgres do it again. But maybe there's no choice. Wes