Hello, I'm programming a small Flash game with PostgreSQL 8.1.4 and phpBB serving as backend. The data in the database is in windows_1251 encoding. For my game I have to convert it into utf8, and at the command prompt it seems to work (I recon this because 7 win1251 chars seem to produce 14 utf8 bytes): phpbb=> show client_encoding; client_encoding ----------------- SQL_ASCII (1 row) phpbb=> select username from phpbb_users where user_id=179; ---------- Василий (1 row) phpbb=> select convert(username using windows_1251_to_utf8) from phpbb_users where user_id=179; convert_using ---------------- Р'асилий (1 row) But when I call the same command from my C program, I get the result in Windows-1251 and not in utf8: #define SQL_FETCH_USER \ "select (username using windows_1251_to_utf8), " \ "user_avatar from phpbb_users where user_active = 1 " \ "and user_id = $1 and user_password = $2 and user_id not in " \ "(select ban_userid from phpbb_banlist where ban_userid is not null)" PQprepare(....); PQexecPrepared(....); [ and as result I get only 7 bytes, in Win1251 encoding: %C2%E0%F1%E8%EB%E8%E9 ] I realize that my question is a bit chaotic, but maybe someone already knows, why wouldn't convert() work in my C program? Otherwise I'll try to prepare a simple test case Thank you Alex -- http://preferans.de