note 71423 added to function.pg-set-client-encoding

I cannot get my version of PHP (4.4.4) to change character encoding on a Postgres 8.1 database. My code is as follows: <?php echo (pg_set_client_encoding ($dcHandle, 'UNICODE').'<br />'); echo (pg_client_encoding ().'<br />'); ?> This results in the following output: 0 SQL_ASCII I can't figure out why this is happening. Can you specify the encoding type to use in the pg_connect string? Is there some privilage that needs to be set? PHPPgAdmin running on the same machine connecting to the same server allows me to submit non-ascii characters such as the GBP sign to the database but I can't figure out its source code and don't know how it does it. My application causes an error if you try to submit a non-ASCII character: Warning: pg_query() [function.pg-query]: Query failed: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xa3 HINT: This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match the encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by "client_encoding". ---- Server IP: 83.138.144.80 Probable Submitter: 82.70.214.33 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.pg-set-client-encoding.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/71423 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71423/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71423/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71423/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71423/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71423/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71423/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/71423 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/71423 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php