On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Geoffrey Myers
<lists@serioustechnology.com> wrote:
Here's our problem. We planned on moving databases a few at a time. Problem is, there is a process that pushes data from one database to another. If this process attempts to push data from a SQL_ASCII database to a new UTF8 database and it has one of these characters mentioned above, the process fails.
The database's enforcement of the encoding should be the last layer that does so. Your applications should be enforcing strict utf-8 encoding from start to finish. Once this is done, and the old data already in the DB is properly encoded as utf-8, then there should be no problems switching on the utf-8 encoding in postgres to get that final layer of verification.