Hello dear postgres community, I'm having a bad time with an issue that I haven't been able to solve with my database, the problem is this: Whenever I try to save a word containing "special" characters in it (for example áéíóú) I get the following django error: "invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xe92020 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"." I know that I need to set something to my database/table but I dont know where or how to achieve this, when I type" show;" at the postgresql shell it tells me that my database is UTF-8 encoding. I solved a problem like this in MySQL with the following commands: alter database <DBname> character set utf8 collate utf8_general_ci; alter table <tablename> convert to character set utf8 collate utf8_general_ci; I dont know if something like this exists in postgresql, or if there is something else I can do or I should be doing, thanks for your help, and your time for reading this post.