Monthly Archives: April 2014

Fix for: character of encoding “UTF8” has no equivalent in “LATIN1”, Ubuntu & Vagrant

This is mostly a post for if I happen over this problem again in the future.

Related to: “DETAIL: The chosen LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding LATIN1.”

The solution I found is a bit of a hack. Really you want to find why postgres has created its databases in LATIN1 encoding before installing postgres.

This script however will recreate them correctly so you can get on with some work. Run it before creating your application database(s).

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# This script changes postgres from LATIN1 to UTF8
pg_dumpall > /tmp/postgres.sql
pg_dropcluster --stop 9.1 main
pg_createcluster --locale en_US.UTF-8 --start 9.1 main
psql -f /tmp/postgres.sql