Hi Tom, Thanks for putting up with the questions. On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 14:58 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > LANG=en_US locale charmap > I have done this on both machines: The working machine says: ISO-8859-1 The not working machine says: ISO-8859-1 I still do not understand what is happening and maybe more important, how I can solve this (without re-installing the OS / database). A better understanding of how the server OS, database, codepages, client OS, charmaps etc work would be nice.... -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB Nijmegen tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277 fax: 024-3608416 web: www.askesis.nl