diff --git a/src/backend/utils/mb/wchar.c b/src/backend/utils/mb/wchar.c
index 0cd1d313109..0a8d70fe8f4 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/mb/wchar.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/mb/wchar.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * conversion functions between pg_wchar and multibyte streams.
  * Tatsuo Ishii
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/mb/wchar.c,v 1.55 2006/05/21 20:05:19 tgl Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/mb/wchar.c,v 1.56 2006/08/22 03:30:20 momjian Exp $
  *
  * WIN1250 client encoding updated by Pavel Behal
  *
@@ -1486,7 +1486,10 @@ report_invalid_encoding(int encoding, const char *mbstr, int len)
 			(errcode(ERRCODE_CHARACTER_NOT_IN_REPERTOIRE),
 			 errmsg("invalid byte sequence for encoding \"%s\": 0x%s",
 					pg_enc2name_tbl[encoding].name,
-					buf)));
+					buf),
+			 errhint("This failure can also happen if the byte sequence does not "
+			 		 "match the encoding expected by the server, which is controlled "
+					 "by \"client_encoding\".")));
 }
 
 /*