i do not use any function other that addslashes on the $_POST On 10/30/08, Lester Caine <lester@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > paragasu wrote: >> i am using php with postgresql. when i submit post query to the >> server. i have the pg_exec error >> <snip> >> Warning: pg_query() [function.pg-query]: Query failed: ERROR: invalid >> byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x93 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". >> </snip> >> is there any function to prevent this type of error. something i can >> apply to any POST query >> before i submit to pg_query() ? > > You probably need to tell us which functions you are using to create/modify > the UTF8 string that you are sending as data. I does sound like a conversion > TO UTF8 is not being carried out somewhere. PHP5 requires that only > multi-byte > string functions are used to handle UTF8 data > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// > Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php