Re: Problem with langage encoding

On 26/11/2008 14:40, Ronald Vyhmeister wrote:

> 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?

If the DB is in UTF8, you ought to be able to issue

  set client_encoding to 'WIN1251'

after connection, and the conversion happens automatically. See:

  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/multibyte.html#AEN27483

HTH,

Ray.


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