On Thursday 13 December 2007 10:38 am, robert wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to hack my inserts script from mssql to work with postgres > 8.1.9 - I can upgrade if need be. I'm getting this error: > > psql -h localhost atdev < fuk2.sql > ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xe1204f > 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 tried: > > /var/lib/pgsql> recode ascii..utf8 fuk2.sql > recode: fuk2.sql failed: Invalid input in step `ANSI_X3.4-1968..UTF-8' > > And also dos2unix , but nothing is working. 0xe1204f looks like a hex > address, and I'm trying hexdump to find what its complaining about, > but that's not helping either. Any ideas? > > Robert > I had a similiar problem and found I had to set the client encoding as follows: SET client_encoding = 'windows-1252'; at the top of my import file. -- Adrian Klaver aklaver@xxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend