Re: Encoding, character not shown correctly in pgAdmin or in query

I had a similar problem. Try different encodings like this command:

set client_encoding to 'LATIN1';

Then:

COPY filename
FROM 'file/path/filename.csv'
WITH  DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER;
On 2/15/2014 6:18 AM, avpro avpro wrote:

Hello all,

In postgresql 9.3 using pgAdmin, I created a table for my application developed in Qt Creator.
the table contains:
idstudent - pk
name
country
town
street


I would like to import a csv file containing all the info about these students. The file was saved/encoded in excel with UTF8 characters.

When I'm importing my file in psql, using the encoding UTF8, I receive the following error for each character not recognized:
"error: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": ... " followed by the character code

I tried to import the file using SQL_ASCII, I got similar errors.
I tried to import the file using MULE_INTERNAL and it worked, but the characters not recognized are not shown correct in pdAdmin and in my application when query is executed. For example after I imported the file with LATIN1 all unrecognized characters were replaced with "?".

Any suggestion what encoding shall I use to display the characters correctly?

note: the student's names and addresses are written using characters from North Europe, Eastern EU, Russia, South America, Asia, etc. everywhere.

Thank you for your input.

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siamo arrivati sani e salvi

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