>Hi guys, thanks for your answers.
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>I followed the sugestion of Mr. Ballinger. I have created the database with Pgaccess. This utility (or postgres itself)create a set of database properties within the database, so I look for this catalog and found the file pg_database. One of the fields is "Encoding" it was set to 1 and this number correspond to the ASCI encoding I change this value to 5 (UNICODE) and all the rest work fine. The problem goes away.
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>Thanks again, and regards.

pgaccess is a nice little tool!
It uses TCL to generate forms, reports, queries (that look similar to msaccess), etc..
When not using psql it is my prefered tool for editing schemas, idexes, etc..
JLK