Why is latin1 special in its conversion from unconvertible unicode data?
Other latin character sets add a warning, but latin1 errors out.
jurka=# create database utf8 with encoding ='utf8';
CREATE DATABASE
jurka=# \c utf8
You are now connected to database "utf8".
utf8=# create table t(a text);
CREATE TABLE
utf8=# insert into t values ('\346\231\243');
INSERT 0 1
utf8=# set client_encoding = 'latin2';
SET
utf8=# select * from t;
WARNING: ignoring unconvertible UTF-8 character 0xe699a3 a
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(1 row)
utf8=# set client_encoding = 'latin1';
SET
utf8=# select * from t;
ERROR: could not convert UTF8 character 0x00e6 to ISO8859-1
Kris Jurka