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Ethan Furman wrote:

> So I'm working with postgres, and I get a datadump which I try to restore
> to my test system, and I get this:
> 
> ERROR:  value too long for type character varying(4)
> CONTEXT:  COPY res_currency, line 32, column symbol: "руб"
> 
> "py6" sure looks like it should fit, but it don't.  Further investigation
> revealed that "py6" is made up of the bytes d1 80 d1 83 d0 b1.
> 
> Any ideas on what that means, exactly?

It may look like the ascii "py6", but you have three cyrillic letters:

>>> import unicodedata as ud
>>> [ud.name(c) for c in u"руб"]
['CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER ER', 'CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER U', 'CYRILLIC SMALL 
LETTER BE']

The dump you are seeing are the corresponding bytes in UTF-8:

>>> u"руб".encode("utf-8")
'\xd1\x80\xd1\x83\xd0\xb1'

So postgres may be storing the string as utf-8.