On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 9:53 AM, Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I fear that I'm missing something very obvious, but I cannot find a syntax > that permits me to use an escaped hexadecimal representation in a CSV file > and have that representation interpreted as the equivalent unicode > character when inserting into the database. > There isn't one - copy treats input as literals and performs basically no processing on them. The system writing the csv file would have to actually encode the UTF-8 symbol, not the string of the code point, directly into the document (i.e., a capable viewer would display whatever 00b0 is on-screen, or a placeholder if it is a non-printable character). INSERT and COPY are two totally different animals: INSERT INTO tbl (t) VALUES (trim(' jdjd ')); -- stores jdjd, but putting trim(' jdjd ') in a csv file and you would store "trim(' jdjd ')" David J.