I need to select records with description containing chars with highest bit set but select * from table where descr ~ '.*ATU[\0200-\0377].*'; fails with error ERROR: regcomp failed with error invalid character range Any idea how to work around it? Thanks. - Robert P.S. This is 7.0.2 from RPM on RH 6.1, locale is CZ, database is with encoding 'latin2' (8).