I've inherited a database system (including source)... It's Russian text (which I don't speak, but I need to work on it). On my screen it shows correctly, but in the database it shows a mess... from trying with a web browser. It appears that the data in the database is encoded with ISO-8859-1 (my browser and the database viewed with PGAdmin match when my browser has ISO-8859-1 encoding).... and it shows correctly on screen in my browser when I use the WIN1251 encoding... The problem is that the database is UTF8, and it won't let me use the convert_to function because it says that the characters don't exist... What I need to do is to pull the UTF8 from the database, tell postgres that it's 8859-1, and then convert it to WIN1251... How? Thank you for any assistance! Ron -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general