My guess is that it was coded by someone different and needs to be made
consistent.
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Kris Jurka wrote:
>
> 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
> ---
>
> (1 row)
>
> utf8=# set client_encoding = 'latin1';
> SET
> utf8=# select * from t;
> ERROR: could not convert UTF8 character 0x00e6 to ISO8859-1
>
> Kris Jurka
>
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