We are working with 8.1 and migrating to 8.4
We will see if after migration this behavior has disappeared. ;-)
Thank you, Scott.
-Original Message-
From: Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com
To: Iñigo Martinez Lasala imarti...@vectorsf.com
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Bad encoded chars in being inserted into database
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:05:44 -0600
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Iñigo Martinez Lasala
imarti...@vectorsf.com wrote:
Hi everybody.
I have a doubt about how postgres deal with bad encoded characters into
database.
We have several gforge application. They are using postgres as database.
If we export a database and import again, we have to deal with several bad
encoded chars. These bad chars always come from copy paste emails from
Lotus Notes mail client. OK, I understand the Notes client people is using
is an ancient application and does not deal very well with some Unicode
chars…
What I cannot understand is why postgres accept these bad enconded
characters into database, exports them without problema but does not allow
them when importing again.
This has been happening since postgers 7.3. However, until 7.4.XX (y don’t
remember what minor version) you could import database without ERRORs.
However, since 7.4.XX it’s impossible and it’s imperative to clean bad
characters (using iconv, for example) prior importing tables.
This is because postgresql's support for UTF-8 encoding (and all
encoding really) has gotten tighter over time, so that the filter to
catch improperly encoded UTF has gotten better with each major
release.
