java.sql.SQLException: ERROR: could not convert UTF-8 character 0x00ef to ISO8859-1 at org.postgresql.core.QueryExecutor.execute(QueryExecutor.java:131) at org.postgresql.jdbc1.AbstractJdbc1Connection.ExecSQL(AbstractJdbc1Connection.java:505) at org.postgresql.jdbc1.AbstractJdbc1Statement.execute(AbstractJdbc1Statement.java:320) at org.postgresql.jdbc2.AbstractJdbc2Statement.execute(AbstractJdbc2Statement.java:48) at org.postgresql.jdbc1.AbstractJdbc1Statement.executeUpdate(AbstractJdbc1Statement.java:197) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.upgrade to sun-jdk-1.4.2.08 fra a prior version 2.use some conversion metod from UTF-8 to IOS-8859-1 3. After upgrading to sun-jdk-1.5.0.04 the problem disappered again. I'm not at all sure that this bug i gentoo specific. Looks like it could be a bug in the std api.
Does it still happen with recent versions? Please reopen if it does.