On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Geoffrey Myers < li...@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.
