John Gunther <postgresql@bucksvsbytes.com> writes: > PROBLEM: Entering accented characters in psql often results in the > error: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8" > ENVIRONMENT: > Terminal program: putty.exe, Translation: ISO-8859-1:1998 (Latin-1, West > Europe) > client_encoding: UTF8 Those two settings need to match up. PG can convert from latin1 to utf8, but only when you tell it the truth about what encoding the client is using. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org