On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote: > I would try explicitly converting the data to latin-1 before you send > it to the database, giving it one of the forgiving error handling > methods I referred to earlier. Or, change your database to UTF-8... BTW to create a UTF-8 database in Postgres, use createdb -E utf-8 ... Kent