What encoding does the Census distribute TIGER data in? The example on page 88 of PostGIS in Action, Second Edition seems to indicate latin1.
shp2pgsql -s 4269 -g geom_4269 -I -W "latin1"
➥ "tl_2012_states" staging.tl_2012_states |
➥ psql -h localhost -p 5432 -d postgis_in_action -U postgres