Thanks Andrew. On the server (the DB to be dumped) everything is "UTF8". On my home server (where I would like to mirror the DB), this is the output: =# \l List of databases Name | Owner | Encoding -----------+-----------------+----------- postgres | postgres | SQL_ASCII pkiula | pkiula_pkiula | UTF8 template0 | postgres | SQL_ASCII template1 | postgres | SQL_ASCII (4 rows) This is a fresh install as you can see. The database into which I am importing ("pkiula") is in fact listed as UTF8! Is this not enough?