On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 03:40:52PM +0200, Gary Benade wrote: > I used shp2pgsql.exe to create an import sql for my gis database. > The resultant sql has data like this in it.INSERT INTO "gis"."sa_area" ("label","type","level",the_geom) VALUES ('MÔRELIG','0x2','2','0106000000010000000'); > The Ô is ascii char 212. > This wont import, PSQL returns > ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xd452 > HINT: This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match the encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by "client-encoding" Well, your data isn't UTF8 and yet that's what you told the server. Either make the data UTF8, or tell the server the actual encoding used... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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