"Pierre Thibaudeau" <pierdeux@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > My setup is as follows: > PostgreSQL 8.2.1 on WindowsXP > The database has UTF8 encoding. > SHOW lc_ctype; gives: "French_Canada.1252" I'm not sure about any Windows-specific issues, but in general it's a really bad idea to be using lc_collate or lc_ctype that is incompatible with the database encoding. regards, tom lane