When I try to send this query (select 'lacarrière' as test;) to a UTF8 initialized pgsql-database (8.2.4) from PHP 5.2.3 I get this error: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xe87265 I use pg_query for the query delivery. Client Encoding is set to: client_encoding ----------------- UTF8 (1 row) pg_client_encoding() also deliveres me "UTF8". Wel, one thing is strange, I think that the database itself can mange the obove string without any problems - when I use the PostgreSQL Manager from EMS to insert that string into database I get the correct result, and no errors. Using php or even psql on the command line I get the errors. I think the way how to send UTF8 stuff to the database has to be different as just pasting some text to psql or sending it through pg_query like I did. Does somebody has any idea how to fix this? -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php