Michael Ben-Nes <miki@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > The character that I sent is: > [שâ??] U+05E9 ש HEBREW LETTER SHIN Well, that does work out to D7 A9 in UTF8, if I'm doing the arithmetic correctly. I can't replicate any problem in either 8.1.4 or HEAD. It's possible that this is a bug that's been fixed since 8.1.3, but I don't recall any change in that area. I think more likely the difference is between the he_IL.utf8 locale definitions in Fedora 4 and Debian. Perhaps you should check for available updates to the locale. regards, tom lane